The Struggling Blogger

The demi-gods of blogging has spoken once again… and they damned the PayPerPost bloggers. Hail! The chosen ones who exists in the blogosphere without being lured to the call of ‘paid blogging’ like us lowly peasant bloggers.

Damned! Damned! Damned!

Did they invent blogging?! What right have them to judge over other bloggers? Whatever happened to live and let live or should I say blog and let blog?

If my so-called ‘hypocritical reviews’ is making you puke, by all means puke on your face! Your holier-than-thou attitude will backfire on you faster than you can lick your rotten balls.

Your insensitivity to others is only overshadowed by your being prejudicial to people whose present state of being you don’t even understand. Suddenly, aside from audio and video, the computer now emits a foul stink that can only come from you.

And to think I even subscribed to your blog.

Damned!

I can write all the unprintables here, but still they wouldn’t suffice to relieve me of the undue stress and anxiety that your insensitivity has caused.

Yes, I am one of those PayPerPost Punks that you damned on your post. And not only that, I also do Sponsored Reviews and Blogvertise, for your information. That means I am three times the punk that you are referring to in your unsolicited opinion.

Because I have mouth to feeds, I have children to send to school. I earned my keeps fair and square. I blog to let my family live. I do not steal, I do not lie and most of all I do not misled others with phony get-rich-quick scheme and bogus affiliates income opportunity.

I am a blogger, struggling maybe, but I am blogger… and I don’t care about your standards.

Linkity-link, linkity-link
An SEO-wannabe, hmm… let me think
I’ll drive more traffic, I’ll get more hits
If only I know how to linkity-link

Linkity-link, linkity-link
Cash registers ringing, klankity-klink
I’d love to hear that sound, e’en the faintest ‘pink’
Oh, if only I know how to linkity-link

Modesty aside I have been googled at
And Yahoo searches have found me, just like that
Yet I really don’t know how to play the game
So I still have a poor Page Ranking, oh! what a shame!
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I don’t usually blog about this show since I don’t usually follow the show. Besides, a blogger friend, Joan Joyce makes more credible posts about it. In fact, I get my updates on her blog whenever I missed a tribal council.

But last night, I made sure that I’m going to watch it just to see Marlon off the island, and so glad he did.

And now that he is gone, are we going to see a more ‘realistic’ version of the Survivor Philippines? Pardon the cynical me, but the twists and turns that he did while on the island is much too complicated to be accomplished by just a single soul.
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While it can be much cheaper since payment is only based on time consumption, there are definitely more disadvantages to blogging from an internet café than blogging from your own home.

The most obvious reason is privacy. While the blog is available to the general web surfing public, having someone watching over your shoulders while making your post is really irritating. This is definitely one of the top irritants of blogging from an internet café.

Another hassle of accessing your blog from an interment café is the environment, which is most of the time noisy. This is because most of the time, these internet cafes / game zones have as much gamers inside as there are web surfers (and sometimes even more). And if you have experienced trying to write amidst these gamers shouting instructions to one another as they play their games, you will know what I’m saying here.
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I thought that I can brush it off. Unfortunately I have to read it again… and then again… and then some more. I’m talking about bloggers who look down on fellow bloggers. I read it on forums, some even blog about it.

Does being in a free-hosted blog makes me less of a blogger? Are self-hosted blogger better bloggers? Maybe they meant well, saying that it is a must that a blogger must have his own domain, a self-hosted blog, even if he is just starting to blog. Because, as they continues, a free-hosted blog gives an impression that it contains crap. And this coming from a supposed to be respectable blogger.

I, for one have seen free-hosted blogs who contains useful information, a far cry from the crap being referred to by the above-mentioned self-hosted blogger. And have seen too, self-hosted blogs who contains crap, if not altogether trash. Yet, I do not bash on them.

Maybe they are spending on their blogs and we don’t. Maybe they earn better and we don’t. Still, that doesn’t give them the right to look down on us.

Someday, when I can pay for my own domain, including it’s maintenance, I hope to have a self-hosted blog. But if and when that happens, I will not look down on fellow bloggers - even if they are on a self-hosted blog!