For the past few days, all I’ve been doing was travel across the Arabian blogosphere… all in the name of research. I was aware of very few Arab blogs so you can say that my “trip” was quite interesting… in a way.
Here are my observations:
I came across a blog called Moments of Clarity, which is somewhat new and a quite interesting blog. The author of the blog – whose name I can’t seem to find anywhere on the site – has put Arab bloggers in three categories:
- The extremely political ‘let’s-all-go-to-the-demonstration-tonight-and-stick-it-to-the-man’ kind of people.
- The disastrously westernized ‘look-we’re-not-all-terrorists’ kind of people.
- The news breaking ‘I’m-not-aware-that-other-people-read-newspapers-too’ kind of people.
Boy I couldn’t have described it better!
The political bloggers seemed to be dominating, and to be honest, I couldn’t go through their blogs simply because I’m not into politics whatsoever. To many, that makes me the “look-we’re-not-terrorists” kind of blogger and if that’s what you want to call me, I’m totally Okay with that. After all, I am NOT a terrorist.
There are few other kind of bloggers that need to be added to the list:
- The Anonymous Bloggers: I suppose they choose to be anonymous because it gives them more freedom to say whatever they want without a care in the world, as in: lashing and bashing on people, or pouring their secrets into the cyberspace and utter crap like that.
Blogging anonymously is so 1995. We’re in the age of self promotion, where we all have profiles on social networks where we show off how “unique” we are, just like how everyone else is unique… which brings us to the other kind of bloggers:
- Self-promotional Bloggers: Yes, I did just say that anonymousness must die. I do want bloggers to be themselves, I really enjoy reading other people’s thoughts on life, experiences, news, music, books or whatever but I never want to read about what time you woke up, what you had for lunch, what you bought on your last shopping spree, what you and your mom fight about. Unless there’s a moral behind your boring stories…I don’t care to read them.
There’s an obvious misconception of what a blog is, what to/not to blog about and how to categorize you blog right. I’ll be sharing my thoughts on these soon but for now I’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject.
Do you think that everything should go into your blog? Is there such thing as too much self promotion and is anonymous blogging still cool?
Hey Dee, first of all GREAT JOB, you must’ve spent alot of time on this. It’s a great idea and I feel totally into it. I’ll put the link in my msn personal msg so everyone can read it and try to check it out for themselves. Girl, as for me, COUNT ME IN!
oh one more thing, cant the colours of this page be more bright and flashy, i love to feel ALIVE and WILD! Youth you know
Working on it
Oh wow, I’ve been quoted!! I feel honored!
I love the idea of the site and would love to help out any way i can, just let me know.
And d. , I too have thought about an interview with a talk show host during insomnia, but I think i’m more jerry springer material. I could take my pigeon and everything…
=)
Hahaa I can imagine the whole thing… it’ll be the most watched episode ever!