Blogging Rant

I'm going to warn everyone now, because this post is going to seem quite ironic considering you're on our blog (Entrepreneur Girls) and much of our blog is devoted to starting a business.

Some notes for those who may be wondering: our business is NOT blogging. EntrepreneurGirls is a way to track the growth of our business - the good and the bad (the stuff we did right and the stuff we had no business doing in the first place), celebrate the success of some other folks in similar areas (i.e. CollegeHumor and Kiko), congratulate our friends who move up the food chain (i.e. Jo Kwan) and post about random business related things we learn or discover or felt like mentioning (i.e. Red Bull Offices and Why we are NOT the marrying kind). [Sherna says: she's a little ticked folks]

Now that that's out of the way, on the way to the good stuff.

While we find blogs like TechCrunch and Guy Kawasaki's blog to be incredibly informative, well written (in a realistic non-text-book manner) and things like Dlisted and the PurseBlog to be entertaining - I think they've also created a monster. Loads of people have heard the minor and major successes of the blogosphere and have moved into the marketplace, not to provide information or perspective but to make money. Which is fine, except when you go on to message boards and see things like "I have a blog, help me find something to write about". And I imagine some of the conversations go something like this:

Hey, lets make money.
How about a blog, Bob?
Sure, ok.
What are we going to write about, Bob?
I dunno, but we can figure that out later.

Except isn't having a blog with no concept of what to write about like having an auto dealership with no cars?! How can you blog without anything to blog about? How can you be an entrepreneur with no concept of what you plan to offer?

Some have predicted that blogging will in some ways replace the barriers of entry for writers. No longer does it require a publisher, an agent and distributions to get your thoughts transmitted to the mainstream. All you need is ACCESS to a computer, some knowledge of HTML (or a link to Blogger, WordPress, TypePad etc) and hopefully some decent word processing skills (Mavis Beacon at your service). And voila!! You've got a point a view, with infinite possibilities and a global audience.

But the ease at which one can begin blogging leads to the decline in quality of blogging, in general. There are MANY OF US, who have no business blogging, and notice, I said "US". Why do we do it? Maybe hoping that we might have information or a pov (point of view) thats of interest to SOMEONE. Or maybe so we can become the next TechCrunch and make $ from our thoughts and opinions. Or just maybe so we can provide people with a way to follow our journey as we try to start a business without losing our sanity, our day jobs or all our money. We're the latter. But that's what we think. Whose to say that we're not in that group of "those who have no business blogging, but who insist on doing so" in the eyes of many.

But I can't help but wonder

:::Sex and the City Moment:::

Is blogging the new Web 2.0 "thing to do"?

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