Thank you for correcting my punctuation and grammar.

On that note, blogs (even corporate blogs) are most effective written in a conversational and personal tone. While a perfect use of English would be much desirable, what is more important is that the idea is brought across.

Such as yourself.

“I was thinking, there has been so much encouragement for businesses and individuals alike to start blogging – and after reading several books, blogs and articles, it is no doubt that blogging is the current wave of user generated content, and virtually anyone who have or have not used a computer can blog.”

I will only bother correcting the obvious:
“I was thinking: there…”
“anyone who has or has not used”

Your syntax is a mess on the whole. Do please proof-read your entries before you next decide to publish them, else just heed my advice on #5 and stop publishing altogether.

It is certainly an learning experience dealing with comments like this, and you bet it is an opportunity to turn this around.

Dealing with the occasional publicity is part and parcel of blogging.

Of course, I’m sure you’ll agree that there’s no such thing as bad publicity – it’s just a matter of how we deal with publicity (negative or positive) to turn it to our advantage.

Cheers and good luck…

I appreciate the perspective you are looking at this, having read the comments over at Tomorrow.sg.

The theme of this blog is about business blogging and blog marketing, thus the articles are written in the perspective of such.

The majority of the blogs in the world are personal online journals which contain ramblings or humorous anecdotes from an individual, and blogs have indeed originated from such.

Definitely, “blogging” in the sense of personal online journals are for anybody who wishes to do so, and it is a popular form of self expression today.

However, setting up, maintaining and marketing a corporate blog involves an investment of time, money and other resources. Hence, thought needs to put in if that investment would be worthwhile and if blogging is indeed suitable for that business or individual.

I guess (like with everything else in life, erm… except the long tail sites ) a very big portion of the websites and blogs in the world don’t get updated often and don’t receive any kind of traffic at all.

Most of these sites are really what you would say – one time efforts, or one post wonders.

I guess these blogs have to exist, for the top 20% to move on, in a sense, it is like a sales process, a numbers game: you won’t know if the person is interested in your product until you give a person an opportunity to be presented to; you don’t know blogging is good for you until you have given it a go.

So the higher the “50 million” figure, the higher the 20% will be, and so will the remaining 80%.

Of course, many of these 80% blogs also belong to unethical marketers starting hundreds of blogs a day to get incoming links to their sites. Even though Technorati claims that the figures don’t include these blogs, I suspect that there might still be a good number that leaked in.

What I meant by “Dull People” are not so much the ones that do not post often, but post content that doesn’t really interest anyone else except themselves.

However, as Thought Provoker has put it, it is really not up to anybody to say “Hey, you should not blog”, but these group of people might need more effort to get their blogs up the rankings or well visited by web traffic (if they have the intention to do so in the first place)