Lately, I see a meteoric rise in number of people willing to blog and successfully blog. While this is a great trend, but what if your blog does not offer anything new? Is it just a waste of web space and resources?
Lets see what are the contents/types you would like to see in a blog:
1. Someones perspective about anything.
2. A new information.
3. Some interesting stories.
4. Pictures.
5. Compilations.
6. Travel assistance.
7. Ranting etc.
This list goes on and on. Basically people tend to write in a blog about what they feel about a thing, a situation, share information, photograph etc. So, it boils down to sharing new information. But what if someone just copy pastes some random paper abstracts and shares a link through their blog and post it in social media sites? This is one of the behavior irritates me most. I come across this person often through my FB - who posts links to his blog and you go there and find nothing but the copy pasted abstract of a paper!! If you have nothing new to offer, then don't offer. If all that you want to do is to share the abstract, then just copy paste the link to it from pubmed, don't copy paste the abstract and mis-lead the reader as though it is your own. Another thing annoys me most is, even if you do that, don't flaunt it through social media such as facebook. How can you be proud of a thing that is so discernible? I use to tempt to do that half a decade back and realized a while ago that it is not a great act. So, I dared to write a comment on that person's blog saying this is not a great act. It can be at best be left to your note books, not be flaunted around...
Lets see what are the contents/types you would like to see in a blog:
1. Someones perspective about anything.
2. A new information.
3. Some interesting stories.
4. Pictures.
5. Compilations.
6. Travel assistance.
7. Ranting etc.
This list goes on and on. Basically people tend to write in a blog about what they feel about a thing, a situation, share information, photograph etc. So, it boils down to sharing new information. But what if someone just copy pastes some random paper abstracts and shares a link through their blog and post it in social media sites? This is one of the behavior irritates me most. I come across this person often through my FB - who posts links to his blog and you go there and find nothing but the copy pasted abstract of a paper!! If you have nothing new to offer, then don't offer. If all that you want to do is to share the abstract, then just copy paste the link to it from pubmed, don't copy paste the abstract and mis-lead the reader as though it is your own. Another thing annoys me most is, even if you do that, don't flaunt it through social media such as facebook. How can you be proud of a thing that is so discernible? I use to tempt to do that half a decade back and realized a while ago that it is not a great act. So, I dared to write a comment on that person's blog saying this is not a great act. It can be at best be left to your note books, not be flaunted around...
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