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Many people, especially those who did not blog and those who just step into blogging. They have this problem on blogging topic. Many people argued that a weblog should be personal, wrong, it was decade ago when they said so. Let’s see what Wikipedia said years back:

A blog is a website for which an individual or a group frequently generates text, photographs, video or audio files, and/or links, typically (but not always) on a daily basis. The term is a shortened form of weblog. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts,” or “entries”. The person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”.

From Wikipedia

Don’t check “weblog” or “blog” in Wikipedia now, because it has changed ever since… A year ago if I remember correctly. Above quote was used on my other site, that’s why I have it The most recent explanation Wikipedia gives is:

A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

From Wikipedia

Wonder why it changed? Simple. Since blogs are adding everyday, and each blog has their own specialty and category, it’s not a personal anymore. After a period of time, it has indirectly replaced “News Website”, why a company has a blog? They just want to update you, job done! Google any keywords or questions, you’d probably come across more blog than a proper site. Proper site here I mean site that built just for that particular topic.

One major factor that influence this changes though. Make money online. The word online here means search engine as well, so if you want to make money online, you have to make sure that search engine loves you first. How search engine love you depend on certain search engine, Google jacking off some making money bloggers this days, let’s not get into it My point is, a niche topic blog could help a lot more than a messing topics blog, like a personal blog.

I’m not saying that people who blog personal stuff is stupid or is wrong. I see a lot of people start by doing so, which is good. These people keep the traditional meaning of “weblog”. I myself have a personal blog as well, because I want to keep what it should be.

P/S: Recently just finished another theme, but I would like to make some correction and look for a demo/testrun/theme viewer plugin. Anyone knows any?

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