Active Blogger Versus Passive Blogger
Posted by kexbrown on July 9, 2009
Do you categorize your blog as an active blog or do you fit in the category of Passive Blogger? Should you care? What is the difference and what does it mean to me?
Now most people would say that blogging is not a contact sport. But, really it is. Your goal as a blogger is to network with the world. When the reader first visits your blog that is the moment of “FIRST CONTACT.” You aren’t a monument for the masses to climb and gawk. Your blog isn’t an excrement spot for pigeons. You initiate “FIRST CONTACT.”
The Path of Passion
You lead your reader on a path of discovery. Are you an active blogger? Like the birth of a newly hatched chick you strike out to move people with your prose. You take action. Each article you write is not a preliminary report to be followed by the real article later. Fledglings ponder great articles. But, songbirds resonate passion, zeal, sorrow, joy and grandiose symphonies of expression.
The active bloggers have confidence in their opinions. Their faith in their ability give them the same conviction that a grand master maintains. Each move of a chess pawn leads a step closer to the opponent’s king being over-turned.
The passive blogger writes an article and hopes it is their best. The active blogger reviews their work, checks spelling, uses one word to do the work of three and illuminate speech by removing excess verbiage.
Active bloggers understand they are part of a larger game. Like the concussion from a volcano explosion the active blogger moves outward. Each contact vibrates with more activity. Each contact is designed to get a response. To cause an email to be sent. To launch a number of comments. To trigger inquisition.
Infertile Blogging
The poor passive blogger is infertile. Each verse contaminates the crude paragraph that follows. Like an epidemic the blog is quarantined. Impotent words bounce back from self built walls preventing traffic in or out.
Dependable, consistent writing breaks the stillness and burst through the walls of vacant thought. Finding the highway to industriousness you research, you communicate with others, you ask questions and you escape from the jostling legion of mediocrity.
Power of Advertising
Rumination is necessary but action leads to fertility and birth of successful blogging. Advertising awakens the sleeping herds and moves them to arousal. Kinetic energy begins from your blog and assails the blogosphere with conversation.
Become an active blogger with words, emotion and adventure. Escape the tether of passivity. Disintegrate useless blogging behaviors. Use words of fire, discovery and progress.
sharkbytes said,
Wow… I hope I’m one of the active ones… very poetic here, Ken.
kexbrown said,
@Sharkbytes – I would list you as an “Active blogger.” Just the amount of interaction you have on this site by commenting in the forums, advertising and commenting on blog entries puts in the active category. Plus, you write daily.
I had to laugh when I posted the article. Most of the time when I have checked articles they are considered to be at a grammar school level. Maybe if I spent the time to write like this more often then my writing ability would be pushed to junior high level.
Eli G said,
This is one of the finest posts I’ve read so far in this Forum, full of imagery, passion and action, with blogging analogous to volcanic tremors, vibration and eruption. Very enlightening as well as entertaining to read.
How I wish I had that gift of language, depth of thought, and choice of words that Ken has.
My only hope is that I won’t be in the Passive Bloggers category and I’ll strive to be in the list of active bloggers who use “words of fire, discovery and progress” in their blog posts.
Eli G’s last blog post..How To Be Less Dependent On Your Job In This Time Of Recession
kexbrown said,
@Eli – Thanks for the kind comments. I highly recommend you use a “Flip Dictionary” when you write. Oh yeah, and edit, edit and edit.
Tycoon Blogger said,
Very impressive post. I put myself in the active category, for sure. I think most of the bloggers that advertise here are being very active with their blog.
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Miss Zee said,
Oh I feel privileged to be among the first commenters on this beautifully written post! You have a hint of poetic talents that I think you should develop indeed Kex!
And I guess I can consider myself an active blogger toddler! *wink*
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Jan from BetterSpines said,
Rumination! Now there’s a word one doesn’t hear often.You have a wonderful way with words and a wonderful vocabulary. I seem to be losing mine! And emotions and adventure! Oh My! I truly enjoyed reading your words.
Jan from BetterSpines’s last blog post..Choose for yourself!
EdZee said,
Yes,this is a nice blog about being an active blogger in poetic language.
Can I go a little off-topic and ask Ken if all of the links in our comments here are “do follows” or just the parsed blog title by commentluv? Just curious because I had just implemented NOFF plugin in my site and want to verify how to set it correctly.
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kexbrown said,
@EdZee – Actually your comment is not off topic. As an active blogger your goal is to make your comment links count. I thought when I originally set up the Top Commentators list that they were do follow.
But, I haven’t looked at that list for months. Apparently it was set up as no follow. This morning I set it to do follow. I hope that doesn’t mess up your NOFF plugin.
EdZee said,
@Ken – Thanks for the reply and for setting up our links to do follow. I don’t think it will mess up my NOFF plugin setup.
I would like to take this opportunity to inform all Adgitize members that the their recent blog title that will appear with their comments in my blogs are set to do follow. So those who need backlinks to their blogs (who doesn’t backlinks, anyway?) can visit mine, post comment and they will get the do follow linkback.
EdZee’s last blog post..Internet Café Services
Chinaren said,
Looks like someone’s swallowed a book of poems and a dictionary!
Chinaren’s last blog post..Working in China
hiligpinoy said,
im a active blogger but not one of the passive income blogger
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kexbrown said,
@HiligPinoy – Passive income is a false belief. Anyone that is earning a passive income from their blog put in a lot of work in the past and is enjoying the rewards of that effort today.
But, passive income is fleeting. I remember a comment from Brian Tracy and I will paraphrase it here, “If the garden plants aren’t growing then they are beginning to rot.”
divhax said,
i’m trying to become an active blogger
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anisha said,
That’s great ken.I would like to palce myself as active blogger.So many adjectives in single paragraphs and even single line good work by you ken
DogsDeserveFreedom said,
I like this post. Interesting Read! I think I’m an Active Blogger
Rajesh Chekuri said,
Good Comparison………..
Julia said,
Great post!! I feel active! Why blog passive. Just keep a journal if your passive I guess.
Again very well done you active blogger.
AuntieE said,
What a Great article. The bloggers Goal should be; to be an Active blogger. I love a little humor as well as personality in an article. Too much foul language and every day rumbling makes me move on to the next blog. Thanks for the insight. New material is always welcomed.
BestHealthMate said,
I wasn’t a very active blogger until i read your article. Thank you for posting this article. It really drives me to write more.
Kathy said,
I spend so much time making changes to improve my site that I sometimes neglect the blog aspect. Great advice though. I normally post about two times per week.
Dan Harless said,
Active but, I proof read everything to many times and still make errors..