A friend and colleague of mine, Marc, shared a very interesting and hot topic by Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.net with the title: What’s Wrong With Blogging that I found moving enough to share with my own readers.

This was the third time over a span of years that Darren has asked this question and although the post was short and sweet, it’s the responses that are (as the question begs) the meat-and-potatoes.

And what a fest it is!

As some one who uses the Internet and it tools to deliver and share content (blogs, websites, social media) to attract high quality leads I think you’ll find it relevant to your business.

At the time of this writing, there are already 125 comments (and 145 retweets) of which I read them all.

I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the comments on this post. Many were well thought out and written with passion. The first one, for example talked about their frustration of blogging in a different language:

….I write in a niche which is 99% aimed at English speakers, so I need to write in English, however, this means I need all my blog posts to be edited, because I still make a lot of mistakes, and typo’s and grammar mistakes tend to look very unprofessional. It’ll never work perfectly, but I’d really wish the available online translators would increase in quality, as it stands, translation engines are horrid. ~Jan Oda

And another that makes a great observation:

One problem with blogging is that it is so common. There are too many average Janes and Joes and not enough risk-taking and creativity. People are following a cookie-cutter formula and expecting to get results and then become shocked when they realize they have done nothing to grab any genuine attention from viewers. ~Steve

I was unpleasantly surprises by the mindset of most of the commentators on this post because of the blog’s author. I had an expectation that they were a bit more savvy than average since the were blog publishers themselves.

There was a repeat of the call for blogging to get back to its “do-it-for-the-love” roots… As if there’s a problem with monetizing your website. Can advertising be over done?

Of course!

But your decline in readership should help you to self correct NOT your wining peers. They are probably just hating because they can’t monetize.

I know now that is was wrong of me to assume anything other than: “Opinions are like noses; everyone has one but I’ve gotta breath through mine and you’ve got to breath through yours”.

I can say, though, that I agree with the sentiment about the name “blog” not conjuring up the respect do to the work blog writers do. But what do you do when you have a short (albeit not so sweet), catchy name that doesn’t quite fit?

What do you think is wrong with blogging?

Love,