Message from a Disillusioned Blogger

May 12, 2008

You are getting tiresome. You were cute back when you were a kid. In each waking moment your curiousity is peerless, and you spent each day wide-eyed, full of energy to hear what others have to teach you. 

But now that you’ve grown, you suddenly sound like a college freshmen who think they know everything and think they’re the only important people. You’d rather argue your case than listen to someone else’s. You refuse to sympathize those who are not living like you; you suppose people should try to understand your self-centered world instead. You think each problem can be solved by the stock-quotes you can pull out from your favorite philosophy or New Age books.

You have redefined blogosphere, changed its name to smugosphere. 

I wasn’t aware that good writers are supposed to be self-satisfied. I knew them as people who would fuss about how bad their writings are even if everyone disagrees because deep inside they, writers, are always aiming to surpass themselves. I miss the days when a person is worth being called a good writer only if established by real words-of-mouth, and not by online traffic. I miss the days when writers weren’t hermetic and they lived among people of different professions.

But now, with you bloggers self-proclaimed-as-great-writers hogging oh so much limelight, you are all self-congratulatory and acting high and mighty, as if blogging puts you above others. You’re so stuck up. You troll on other people’s blog to mock their work by posting personal jibes disguised as “constructive criticism”, and then you shove your also-popular blog, or maybe your participation on a widely popular forum, as to why you speak with “authority”. And then you keep dichotomizing journalists to your kind thinking there can’t ever be a concurrence for both groups.

Well let me tell you this: I don’t care who you are, if you can’t put a lid on your braggadocios, I won’t ever take you for a writer - your page rank, your popularity, your nomination in "Influential Bloggers awards" and your intimacy with the thesaurus be damned.

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Previous Comments

I find it funny when you said I remind you of, “just another person in the Filipino Smugosphere” when I couldn’t care less about my blogs nor what I write in them >.>

The reason why I hit on lizette is she complains when she doesn’t do anything and her post just proven my point about the “oblige the voters”

I’m a voter myself and saying that I’m voting because one is popular isn’t my thing and applying it to the people who are participating in them is an insult :/

Posted by Armadia at May 14, 2008, 3:04 pm

You wanna make your participation on liz’s blog a noontime opera? You oughta stay there then, because by your posting combative comments here you automatically suggest that this post is talking about you, yes? Don’t get me involved in your messy soapbox.

You hit on lizette? Eww, that sounds really kinky.

Posted by nightdreamer at May 14, 2008, 3:11 pm

Oh sorry, I just saw your post in liz’s blog so I thought I should clarify that with you :gwa:

So seeing that you take things literally or in a way that is “kinky” to the young people (or perverted people? Or whatever? English >.>) today I guess I shouldn’t have bothered at all :)

I better not tell why I’m bothering to correct Liz’s assumption regarding about the influential bloggers then since it’s posted in the first and a larger reason =_=

It’s not that I like the noontime opera or the drama, I had enough of that in GW but it seems that her posts are attacking directly someone who is dear to me :/

And if that doesn’t still strike you, congrats, you are dense ^^

Posted by Armadia at May 14, 2008, 6:11 pm

Armadia, liz isn’t attacking the person who is dear to you. She is criticizing the entire Influential Blogger Award, and she raised some good points about the semantics of the award itself, and the dubiously nominated blogs. Have you checked them out? Now can you tell me with a straight face that up to 10 of them are quality writing, let alone influential?

It’s a constructive criticism. She’s opining because she believes that Filipino blogosphere should be above being a popularity contest. I don’t think she’s got anything against Janette Toral and, if anything, I actually think she does care about this person and therefore she’s suggesting way for Janette to improve this award.

Really, you shouldn’t take her criticisms too personally.

Posted by nightdreamer at May 14, 2008, 8:08 pm

“And if that doesn’t still strike you, congrats, you are dense ^^ ”

Like mass and volume?

My Net connection’s been busted for couple of days now. What’s happening?

Posted by J at May 14, 2008, 8:40 pm

J! wala lang. ^_^ whats your ym? high time i have a serious conversation with you, you know.

Posted by liz at May 14, 2008, 9:07 pm

the democratic process is always a good compromise. Let the people vote and let other people mold and swing opinions. I maintain that the awards last year were actually a great way of involving new bloggers into mainstream blogging community events and efforts. It was not all for naught.

Certain people were “hard to please” last year. But that’s their right. Here’s the deal, they may value their personal opinions, but they have to respect the say of the hundreds who bothered to vote. The right and privilege to self-expression is a two-way street. For some reason, a lot of people forget that a lot.

Posted by benj at May 15, 2008, 9:37 pm

Liz! :D It’s thenutbox@yahoo.com :D

Posted by J at May 16, 2008, 8:30 am

@benj Even if I’m mostly in agreement with you, I still resent seeing that most of the blogs being voted are, in a tamer term since I don’t wanna sound mean today, “eh”. Take one of 2007’s winner, this “Make Money Online with a 13 Year Old” blog. That blog is so banal, I struggle to find a word that’s just as boring as it is to accurately describe how it feels to read that blog.

But anyway, this post of mine isn’t really directed to the influential blogger award piffle. I’m actually writing in scorn of bloggers who are so smug about what they do. People like David Gonzales.

@J I’m now going to compose an “ONLINE PHARMACY” letter and send it to you!

Posted by nightdreamer at May 16, 2008, 9:12 am

I dont enjoy reading that blog too. Heck, I hate reading tech blogs… actually, make that I DONT READ TECH BLOGS. lol.

Oh David Gonzales. To his credit, when I first heard his name, I THOUGHT he was important. LOLOLOL

Posted by benj at May 16, 2008, 2:59 pm

You and me both, benj, but my least favorite kind of blogs are the ones about “HOW TO MAKE MORE MONEY ONLINE”. As for being updated about techs and gadgets, I find myself mostly relying on tech magazines instead. I dunno, every time I read about tech while using a computer (i.e. read a tech blog), voices inside me say “there’s more to life than using a high tech device to read about high tech devices, you know.”

Posted by nightdreamer at May 16, 2008, 3:03 pm

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