Kine 2.0

“A blog is a user-generated website on which the writers (bloggers) enter their remarks in journal style, which then appear in reverse chronological order” – Weber (2007)

My blog “career” started with Windows Live Spaces (MSN Spaces) and I was very active for a while. It was especially something I enjoyed doing while studying in Bangkok, to share my thoughts, adventures and pictures with friends back home in Norway, from everything that I experienced there, a sort of travel diary. Somehow it felt more “safe” to write a personal blog where I could actually “control” whoever that had access to read it, choosing friends from my MSN list. But when I came back to Norway, the purpose with the blog didn’t seem so necessary or interesting anymore, as a reason from this, my blogging started to slow down. When I moved to Leeds I thought about starting up the blog again, now to share experiences from living in Leeds…but for some reason it never happened.

If it hadn’t been for the PR & New Media module, I don’t think I actually would have started to blog again. This time is a bit different, though, since this blog is about me, but with a “twist”. I’m supposed to write my personal experience and views, but now relate it to New Media, PR and/or Marketing areas. So far, I’m enjoying the new blog experience, and every time someone has dropped a comment on my post, it gives me a good feeling, knowing that someone actually find my views on the things I write interesting enough worth commenting. It makes it more fun and inspiriting to write. But like we have been tough, the basic rule: you have to give to receive, and note to myself; I have to be better commenting more on other people’s posts!

I hope the rest of the PR & New Media students are enjoying their blogging experience as much as I do. I know some days it can be very hard to write a post, but I really enjoy reading other blogs and sometimes this gives me inspiration to write my view on things I have read.  

According to PRblogger, Stephen Davies, blogging has gone mainstream, and blogging is here to stay. It’s fascinating how huge the interest of blogging has become; now 41 % of the total UK internet audience reads at least one blog in a single month (comScore).  Richard Bailey wrote a blog post “Blogs are Boring”, and I think what he writes is true, it isn’t just about having a blog, but if you want to attract readers and stand out from the rest of all the blogs, you have to make it interesting and differ from the rest. Combining your blog with other social media applications is one way to do it. However, I don’t want to stuff my blog full of videos from YouTube, unnecessary links etc., just to attract readers, without any purpose, it has to be related with the certain topic.

The question is: will I keep up writing this blog when I’ve finished the module?