Being a Blog Nobody (Continued)

I just noticed that I was linked on Liz Strauss’ list of successful and outstanding bloggers! Ha ha, maybe I am being a little too hard on myself. Oh well, this is a useful exercise so I will continue. Thanks for the self confidence boost Liz! It means a lot to me that you would put me in same category as the other blogs in your hall of fame. Thanks!

What value can I provide readers to this site?

I suffer from an inability to stick with one idea for longer than a few weeks. If you have been following my blog, you may have noticed that I regularly completely change everything on this site. I think this problem may stem from the fact that I am constantly struggling to deliver content that that I think users find compelling. My inability to describe what value I provide to users makes me re-evaluate what I am doing and start over. Frequently.

So then I asked myself why do I blog? I am certainly not here to make any money. I just want to make interesting content that will engage people, and have them come back for more. I want to interact with people from all over the world and make some sort of impact on their life. I also think it would be pretty satisfying knowing that people out there value my opinion and are interested to hear what I have to say about things.

What life experiences and knowledge do I posses that I can leverage into a useful blog?

I am a full time University Student in Victoria, British Columbia. I got myself elected to the Student Government and the University’s Senate. I lived in residence, and spent a year organizing activities and events for the students there. I’m graduating with a Business degree in a few months. I spend an excessive amount of time on the Internet reading blogs and trying to understand the web. I like meeting new people - I’m pretty outgoing… and I guess I would consider myself well known on campus (in a good sense). I like going on random adventures. And the list goes on. But how does that relate to you?

The newest incarnation of this site “un/popular web culture”

I was trying to think of a “niche” or “theme” that would encompass that entire last paragraph… and what I came up with was a blog about web culture: what’s popular on the Internet, and how it relates slash interacts with the “real world”. It’s pretty vague, but it gives the the opportunity to talk about many different things. Basically, the web filtered through me.

Everyone has to start off as a blog nobody. But how does one get past that? What sort of value are people looking for, and how do you get your face out there? I think this new blog will be an interesting experience for me and you. I got myself elected to student government… let’s see if I can get myself elected to the Internet. With over fifty million blogs, there ought to be a lot of people out there looking to do the same. I hope I can help them.