famous blog vs. good blog

I’ve never been the person who reads blogs on a regular basis. But, when I was a teenager I spent a lot of time (it was way too much time I wasted) on YouTube. I think these two forms of media have quite a lot in common, and therefore I’d use the same criteria for rating them.

What makes a good blog?
When asking myself this question, the first thing I had in mind was to search for some famous bloggers, read a few of their posts and find out what all of them have in common that makes them as well-known as they are. Well, I could also admit that I was simply too lazy for going through so many blogs. But, as an excuse for my laziness I began to think about whether a famous blog automatically has to be a good one.

This thought crossed my mind because I know how it is with people making Youtube-videos, and they have quite a lot in common with bloggers, sometimes even write blogs themselves. A great part of them were really worth watching at the beginning of their ‘career’, when nobody knew them. As they became more and more famous, their videos turned less entertaining. People in the blogosphere and the Youtube-world are mostly very natural and therefore entertaining when they start with their business. The more professional they become, the more their personal touch fades.

We are living in a lazy society. The majority of people don’t really care about facts, or well-documented experiences others made. What people want, is to know the people they read about. Personal information is the best one can give them, which sometimes makes the life of a well-known blogger a bit hard. More or less you could say that a famous blogger only has to sell themselves. 

A good blog, or let's call it a blog of high quality, whereas, should focus more on a certain topic. That does not mean that the blogger always has to write about the same kind of stuff. But, every blog post, whatever it is about, should be focused on the experience they've made, the interesting news they've heard about, the product they want to recommend to their readers,...not only on the person blogging. Also does a good blog need some pictures or videos that make it more lively.

I don’t find all famous blogs bad, although it might have sounded like this. There are, of course, a lot of famous blogs that deserve their popularity. I only wanted to reveal that not all of them are as well-written as we expect them to be. But, everyone has to find their own definition of a good blog. This often depends on a person’s interests and is therefore hard to agree on.