The way I see it, the main problem with blogs is what they are called – blogs.

What an ugly name!

Blog also sounds too much like blah__g, blah__g, blah__g. And unfortunately too many folks think that is pretty much what is going on at blogs; the blogger is just blah blah blahing away about their love life or lack thereof, their job or lack thereof, their rants and the like.

Not so.

When people ask me what I do for a living I sometimes tell them I own a network of dynamic web sites with interactive capability. They are dynamic because they are updated often, even multiple times daily and interactive because readers can comment and give feedback.

To which I a response something like, “Ooo…” “Whoa!” or “Cool.” And more often than not, “Huh!?”

To the last group I say, “I own a blog network.”

At which point they roll their eyes and think so loudly I can see the thought bubble, “The guy has no love life, no job and just whines a lot online because he has nothing else to do.”

Also, not so.

I do have a love life (I don’t write about that as it’s really none of anyone’s business) and a job and I am definitely not a complainer. Another Will, Will Rogers, cured me of complaining with one of his nuggets of wisdom – “I used to complain about not having any shoes until one day I saw a man with no feet.”  I don’t complain in my blogs or in real life and I don’t particularly care to read when others do it either. Why would anyone want to hear me do it?

I blog here at the BillBelew about blogging. I also own a blog about business goings on in the PanAsian region (see PanAsianBiz) and in Japan (RisingSunOfNihon) and about the Bollywood/Celebrity industry (FilmyFair) and SouthAsia (SouthAsiaFair) and sports (SportsPageFair) and and….

And my son, the creator of Wilby owns Mephistoape. He doesn’t whine.

And these friends of mine are quite about serious about their writing:

• A Knock on My Door
• Earn it book
• Medieval Minds
• Frances Kakugawa
• Katie Bonn
• Paintdrop
• UX of Social Media

Nope, not everybody blahgs. The general wisdom, with 77 million some blogs in the blogosphere, some of them have to be good. I know some good ones.

Is yours one of them? Please tell me about it.

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