Problems.
I'm not exactly new to the world of blogging and to the internet, and - still - this world itself is still pretty new. What I've come to realize these days is that there is no such thing as "mainstream" in the net.
No so long ago, if you didn't have money, you couldn't produce high quality content. That is not true anymore, neither for video, music nor for publicizing texts or books. So the odds are that, if you're good, or even average you'll find a way to keep getting audience from the net. Of course, I don't see this as a problem.
Google got big because he made it easy for people to find stuff on the net (not just the web). Their search engine and optimizations and ideas are just the tip of the iceberg, of course. Other guys copied the ideas from Google and spiced them up, and also got successfull: Facebook and Myspace are simple examples.
Well, here the problems start... I'll simply take the "blog example": Google indexes blogs taking into account everything that it accounts for in other websites, including updating frequency. For a one-man blog, there's simply no way you'll update as often as group or collaborative blogs. So the ranking in google does not means the blog is better or worse.
I would very much like to find blogs of people who have something to say to me, even if they're not writing one post per hour (or less). And I greatly enjoy it whenever people find me and comment or mail me.
By the way, I have to make a little opinion statement about the brazilian blogosphere: it mimics the worse of relationships in Brazil. Can you imagine yourself begging for anyone around you to read your blog? It's fairly common to do this around portuguese blogs. "I'll read you, if you read me. And I'll comment you, if you'll comment me." Sounds so lame.
But the worst of it all is getting lots of comments like: "Nice blog." or "Good thinking." that clearly show the commenter didn't even read the post.
Problems.
No so long ago, if you didn't have money, you couldn't produce high quality content. That is not true anymore, neither for video, music nor for publicizing texts or books. So the odds are that, if you're good, or even average you'll find a way to keep getting audience from the net. Of course, I don't see this as a problem.
Google got big because he made it easy for people to find stuff on the net (not just the web). Their search engine and optimizations and ideas are just the tip of the iceberg, of course. Other guys copied the ideas from Google and spiced them up, and also got successfull: Facebook and Myspace are simple examples.
Well, here the problems start... I'll simply take the "blog example": Google indexes blogs taking into account everything that it accounts for in other websites, including updating frequency. For a one-man blog, there's simply no way you'll update as often as group or collaborative blogs. So the ranking in google does not means the blog is better or worse.
I would very much like to find blogs of people who have something to say to me, even if they're not writing one post per hour (or less). And I greatly enjoy it whenever people find me and comment or mail me.
By the way, I have to make a little opinion statement about the brazilian blogosphere: it mimics the worse of relationships in Brazil. Can you imagine yourself begging for anyone around you to read your blog? It's fairly common to do this around portuguese blogs. "I'll read you, if you read me. And I'll comment you, if you'll comment me." Sounds so lame.
But the worst of it all is getting lots of comments like: "Nice blog." or "Good thinking." that clearly show the commenter didn't even read the post.
Problems.
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