15 risks of blogging
Blogs take the entire realm of mental domination, and smash it into a
million pieces.
It's hard to brainwash a person who is habitually struggling with deep
thoughts, and daily expressing herself in her blog, arguing with other
bloggers, and defending her posts against hostile comments and emails.
A real blogger is combative.
This world is too violent, deceptive, and stupid for anyone to just
float through life with smiles and hugs for every rotten soul you
meet. To be sane, you have to be angry at many injustices and crimes.
Only a mentally deranged imbecile would think it's good to go along
with everything and never criticize or question anybody or anything.
Swedenborg said that God has to let evil people get rich and
successful, because they're the only ones, albeit with selfish motives
and arrogant attitudes, who have the dedication to get anything done
in this world. The "good" and "nice" people are too lazy, too soft,
too timid to get up off their butts and take some risks.
The lightbulb, which as Derrida might have said, stands as a seemingly
universal image and metaphor for Idea Itself, did not give up its
secrets without a long and arduous struggle on the part of Thomas
Edison.
Blogs, when done correctly, when combative in the name of some higher
notion or human ideal, are 100% opposed to all forms of enforced and
incentivized opinion. Blogs are contrary to group-think, herd
instinct, and automatons.
Blogs are the product of Thought and require fast, hard, deep
Thinking.
When you use a blog to express your genuine opinion, personal insight,
reasoned faith, observation-based theory, cultivated taste, informed
argument, or real life experience, you risk a lot.
Every time you post something, every article you publish to the web
via your blog, exposes you to multiple potential hazards.
15 Risks of Blogging
(1) You risk being laughed at, mocked, and flamed...in front of your
customers, clients, and colleagues.
(2) You risk looking stupid, by blurting out something that you later
deeply regret.
(3) You risk looking biased and ill-bred, by saying something harsh
and provocative, without getting all the facts first.
(4) You risk being too zealous, and sounding rash, overly emotional,
or narrow-minded.
(5) You risk turning RSS subscribers into unsubscribers.
(6) You risk losing potential clients.
(7) You risk saying some random thing that horrifies and enrages your
boss, your best friend, or your biggest client.
(8) You risk accidentally hurting someone's feelings.
(9) You risk being misinterpreted.
(10) You risk alienating other people, the non-bloggers, who
increasingly compare unfavorably with the vastly more interesting
blogosphere, by being visibly bored and distracted in their presence.
(11) You risk alienating other people, as you respond like a scientist
to any query, and say "what's up? up is the opposite of down", and use
blog terms like ping, trackback, spam comment, link love, feed
syndication, feedrolls, feedscraper, A List, blogrolls, captchas,
moderation, dashboard, admin panel, Dan Ratherize, self-policing
blogosphere, pseudo-blog, blogocombat, echo chamber, traffic, site
stats, referral logs, Technorati, Sifry Alerts, troll, long tail,
purple cow, free prize inside, tipping point, WTF, 404 (clueless, page
not found), PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and computer), and
template tweaking. The glass is neither half full, nor half empty, but
twice as large as necessary. Two banana, at best.
(12) You risk getting sued, hacked, or swarmed with spambot droppings.
(13) You risk getting linked to by a sleazy site.
(14) You risk being stalked, threatened, physically attacked.
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