You know, sometimes when you ponder about marketing stratergies and when you figure out rationales behind elements of the marketing, (or at least when I do such) the genius of the idiot that thought of such a great stratergy etc. and when you are caught up in that mousetrap that has been laid by those great guys, you'll start to have those strange, awkard-fashioned, distributive, reserved and somewhat neutral, seziures. I.e. you go 'what the heck have I gotten myself into this time? aw crap...'

Blogspot is a perfect example of this. A stupid idea of an open diary for the whole world to read about your views, your day, your happenings and your life has became so popular for logical reasons of perspective-intake, tidbits to curb hunger, to catch up with friends; social reasons of sub-concious acceptance, sub-concious self-potryal, peer pressure and no-brainer ''ooh cool! I wanna join!!'' antics. (I know I'm going to have a lot of apologising to do.... support creative freedom of speech a bit, despots.)

Anyway, you can laugh at the irony that I'm a blogger myself. I've even got three personal blogs in the running.

Okay, I'll cut the classy beginings away and speak about some randomly rojaked aspects of blogs...

Length
Seriously, I didn't care about the length of my posts at all when I first begun blogging. Length is just an attribute to a piece of article and doesn't give much concern to its content and quality. It was only when this certain friend of my harped so much on the number of words of essays and insist that he had no problem in writing lengthy essays, that my awareness of length has grew slightly larger. Still, I do believe that length has nothing to do with essays, in fact, the essays that are the shortest but bring out the greatest meanings, are the essays that should be considered the better written ones. And I know that its hard to reach such a standard, thats the logic behind why I hate word limits.

A long length, can either put off someone or attract someone to search deeper into it. So it really depends.

Zoneseekative Stuff
When I have nothing better to do or have too many things to do, I would go blog and zoneseek. If one pays attention to my posts, one will notice that the stuff I do aren't organised at all. This is especially true when I do one-word topics like 'Tolerance'. My entries gets very out of sync as I just get my views out onto the screen without considering structure nor idea flow. The 'whatever I think about at the moment, I write about'. I don't do research or refer to something when I do blog entries, except maybe the key points of the topic when I do stuff like 'Breaking into the Identity'. I also like to create my own words without warning. You don't find words like 'foundatative' or 'liturerative' in the dictionary, but by the power and magic of the English language, its probaly understandable when its read in context.

Theres also this one problem with zoneseeking... because it concerns metaphorical and literal topics revolving around psychology, philiosophy etc., its usually very 'you can see and understand what I mean right?' So sometimes, I start the blog entry by a thinking session and end it with the blog still empty, basically because I have the feeling that it can be seen and noticed or because its already there and easily seeked. Other times, halfway in a blog entry I assume that people can see an entire section of a certain subject and therefore don't type about it. Its not the practical knowledge part nor the theory part, its more of the seeing and getting it part. (My blog has not much practical knowledge anyway) So I'm not refering to the information I'm saying, but rather the...
Well. You know...

Posts that have no reason to exist
No, I'm not talking about my whole blog, although such a labeling can be possible. But stuff that I write thats really meaningless and seem to have no point, I just do it for the reason that theres a need of the existance of having 'no reason'. I believe thats a reasonable enough reason. This is meaningless really. But you get the reason.

The Drawback with knowledge that people ARE aware of your blog and probaly reading it
I don't really know how many people actually read into the content/crap of my blog, but with the knowledge of people that have an awareness of my blog, there would be the nagging sort of feeling that repels me from doing entries. (Thats one reason why I say blogger is a genius) I do have a hidden counter-cum-tracker on this blog, but its seriously useless to know the reader's IP addresses and other jargonfied information, and knowledge of whos coming is besides the point anyway. Its both sub-concious and concious, and in both streams, I'll be trying to be politically-correct, depending on the situation on how that term can be defined. There are a variety of reactions from people who read my blog: I have made people impressed (for no good reason), I have made people angry, I have influenced some who in turn get 'inspired' by me, I have made people say I'm being lame and crappy, and I have plenty of other feedback like "you think too much", "wah, cheem ar" to the other extreme of "life is a matter of perceptions, your perception may be true... but then, maybe not.", "Because". And of course, the people who paint more colourful word-pictures versus me who belittle my essays and just give a simple nod to them (however, this species has become extinct. It seems that they have all stopped blogging.) I also have to announce that I do not really like people talking directly about my blog entries. I mean, its okay if discussion is made on the general topic using that article as a platform to branch, but announcing 'RICE' out and quoting titles and content... ahem. Just don't do it.

So whats the role of this blog?
Alright.... I'll break away from those uncatergorised bold pointers and now attack the main point. I was seriously thinking of doing an ending like, having the words 'the answer:' here and then show the complexity of blank space before the last words of 'I have no idea.' But thats too cliched and... stupid. But the true role of this blog? I believe that, in my previous entry on the Role of my Blog, I had rambled enough about the various roles of the common blog. And mine... the point of mine is...


Argh. Blogspot is a genius.

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