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What attracts you: the Blog or the Blogger?

There’s this one observation that when a blog/blogger becomes famous, they usually grow thin on content. Gone are the quality posts and coasting becomes a daily blogging habit. Still, they continue to be famous and admired.

Scott of AfftoolBox thinks John Chow and Shoemoney belongs to that exclusive list. I must first admit that I read these two blogs mentioned and subscribe to their feeds because they had quality content. I didn’t add them right away. Took me weeks before finally deciding they had consistent valuable content.

The Cartoon Blog once put out a funny strip — the 2 Ways of Becoming a Popular Blogger.

2 Ways to Become Popular

Witty.

That brings me to our question — what attracts you to subscribe and read a blog?

  • The person is already popular, so when he/she opened up a blog, I subscribed to it.
  • The blog is popular and useful with great content.

And speaking of popular, Michael of Basapa put out a list of The Most Popular Filipino Blog Posts of 2007 and The 2007 Top Pinoy Probloggers.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

25 Responses

  1. Avatar for Ayei Ayei says:

    I agree with the content that you just posted, some people who are almost on popularity category they tend to lessen their post maybe because they taught being popular is what it takes and don’t need to wrote up a good content I mean a content which reliable and has sense.

    I agree with the other comment regarding about blogging since their opinion are similar to what I am gonna write up here. :)

  2. Avatar for doy doy says:

    Hi, I was just jumping from one blog to another then I saw this entry of yours from last year.

    Hmm, being a famous blogger/blog means that besides being famous, one must have the right “tools”: Connections (friends, acquaintances, good DSL, good server…in other words, enough “physical, non-virtual resource” to maintain the site ), familiarity with the language, and the “appropriate” personality. (Ergo, I submit to a fact that internet is just another space and time where we can transfer what we have in the “real” world. This is also a question of taste.)

    And of course the passion to do it.

    Some bloggers just don’t get it. Some blogs just stay stagnant.

    The diagram above is hilarious indeed. :P

  3. Avatar for PourOutBoy PourOutBoy says:

    i cant avoid to be struck by the popularity of some bloggers but it still goes down to the quality of posts they produce. if i dont find the contents interesting i wont visit the site again

  4. Avatar for Ederic Ederic says:

    I’d say both. If the blog has content I’m interested in and if I like the blogger. :)

  5. Avatar for Kuya Kevin Kuya Kevin says:

    Definitely content for me. I discontinue the feed if the blog begins to bore me.

    As far as my blog goes, I don’t write unless I have some kind of news, review, inspiration, etc. So far I average four or five entries a week.

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