I Blog, Thou Blogst, She blogs…
Blogkeeping — By Adele on 31 January, 2007 6:12 pmAlthough normally I decide for myself whether a topic is worth writing about or not so much, there’s an issue I’d like to take your views on, munchkins.
It’s coming up to my blog’s first anniversary. In the last year I’ve posted every weekday (and some Sundays), and there’s one topics I’ve been steadily avoiding: blogging itself. It’s a worthy topic, and there are tons of blogs about blogging out there, competing for their place under the sun. I felt I should just keep on writing about the spanking industry, and leave writing about blogging to those who have specialist knowledge about it.
Still, in bloggy years a full year of daily posting is… well, at least the age of majority. It’s impossible not to pick up some blogging tricks in all this time. Some of my readers seem to think so, anyway, because I keep getting emails asking for blogging advice. My standard answer has been either “Ask Google“, or “Read what SpankBoss said“, or “Read what Bonnie said” etc.
Then I started to wonder whether shirking the topic myself is a little greedy. After all, the whole point of starting “Spanking Model Speaks” was to share my knowledge about the spanking industry. One might argue that spanking blogs are as much a part of the industry as movies and websites, and I certainly haven’t been shy with my opinions on those.
However, I don’t want to annoy my readers (the ones who haven’t annoyed me first, anyway), so I’m willing to hear what you think about this.
Are posts about spanking blogging something you would be pleased to see here from time to time? Or should I not waste valuable spanking space on something that isn’t strictly speaking my topic?
Small print: If you don’t tell me your opinion, you lose the moral right to complain about the outcome, whatever it is.
UPDATE: Thank you to everybody who took the time to give me your opinion. As far as I understand, the “write whatever you like” camp is slightly larger than “who cares about the blogging techniques” camp, and both are much larger than the “OMG, I can’t wait for you to tell me all your blogging secrets” camp. I’ll bear that in mind, munchkins; thanks for your time.
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i’d love to see the new content, actually.
hey, it’s your blog and you always seem to come up with some very interesting posts, so i think you’d have a good bit to share :)
I think it’s important and interesting to discuss non-spanking topics in non-spanking contexts. Because as difficult as it is to believe, there are other things in life besides spanking (gasp!). Sometimes it’s interesting to see how non-overtly-spanking-related-things often do relate in some way to spanking when your life is so steeped in it. But it’s just as interesting to see how they don’t. Kind of like seeing your first grade teacher at the supermarket. “You mean, Miss Jones buys FOOD?”
How’s that for a non-sequitur?
Hmmmm… well, I usually subscribe to the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” theory. Your blog is unique and fascinating, as it gives everyone an inside peek of the industry and its working and people and so forth. Those of us in it, nod and laugh and relate, and those who are not get to read a lot of fun and informative stuff, ask questions, join in. With soooooo many spanking blogs out there, they tend to become generic, and one has to have a hook. I think you have your hook already, Adele.
Adele, your insight is a gift to the world. If you have something to say on any subject, I’d want to read it. That includes your thoughts about blogging…. why not?
Adele,
I think it could be a wonderful topic to delve into as long as the usual pitfalls are avoided.
*Endless debating over whether blogging is a useful medium
* The “will blogs end media as we know it” debate.
That sort of thing.
But you’ve never engaged in that sort of thing before, so I don’t see why you’d begin.
By all means, go for it =)
–
The Phoenix
My personal take is that blogging is an individual enough endeavour that any sort of “how to blog” advice usually either ends up being so generic as to almost be common sense or ends up being “how to make a blog that looks and sounds just like mine”. There are exceptions, of course: Bonnie has some great advice for budding bloggers on her’s, and I suspect that if you did choose to do so, you’d be in the same league.
So I guess it comes down to: it’s not really necessary, but if you do, I’ll be happy to read it. My 3 cents, of course (adjusted for inflation).
Adele,
Do whatever you feel like doing. I think I would like your blog no matter what you were writing about, even if it were non-spanking, non-model related. I am not a person who thinks about spanking 24/7, but maybe that is rare, I don’t know. I enjoy hearing about others opinions on a variety of subjects, not just spanking. If I don’t like something, I skip over it and come back the next day or next week to see what else has been written. One thing I’ve noticed personally is that if there is too much of the same type of entry or theme on a blog, it tends to turn me off after awhile and get stale for me and I stop reading. But that’s probably just me. You have not managed to do that to me yet! But if you feel you want to branch out into uncharted territory, go for it, I fully support you. It seems to me there are no rules with blogging.
As for advice to other bloggers, links to other blogs, and so forth, that is great in small doses. I like to know about other worthwhile blogs, that is how I find blogs that I like, just please don’t do that every entry..LOL.
Best wishes,
Julie
Adele,
Yours is a perspective worth hearing, and that applies to many topics. I’d love to listen to what you have to say! Just be you.
My blog walks a fairly straight line when it comes to staying on topic. But even I recognize the value of an occasional change of pace post. It helps to keep both the blog and the blogger fresh.
Hugs,
Bonnie
I agree with Spike… if you have something to say about just about anything, it will be intelligent and probably worth reading.
Your blog is refreshingly frank and your views and comments on
the Spanking scene have been very illuminating to a voyeur like myself.
I also agree with Spike and iwasrobert, and I’m sure that any thing you
say about anything will be intelligent and worth reading.
The latter – you don’t need to write about other bloggers, they write about themselves already :).
(Do know that I wouldn’t be blogging if you didn’t encourage me. Now I wonder if I blog too much for my own good :).)
Adele,
“Ah, which is better now, boys?”
said my old, mostly Scotts, Gran.
“With the butter coming dear
at 60 cents a pound, am I to be spreading
it thin on all the bread,
so the Old-Man is all scratchy over it,
and ends up having at.
your arses with his leather? Or do
I put it all on his to keep him mild,
and you boys all carping, so he gets
his back up over that and beats a butt or two?
Well, either way, wear your heavy trews
‘til the price goes down a bit.”
I like your blog, especially the interviews, but I know you are one inventive lady. Proust, remember, wrote about 1200 pages about eating a tea-cake. Spanking, and Adele’s devious mind, ought to yield a much wider spectrum of interesting and tangential stuff.
Jeoffry
Much as I’m tempting to think this is just a ruse to prompt a more than usual outpouring of comments, I will join the fray by suggesting that the topic itself is less significant that what you might have to say about it. You seem like a bright girl with lots of sociological insight. Sure, I’d be happy to read your thoughts on the blogging process and experience, if that what your muse moves you to write about.
You’re an intelligent woman, with a successful blog. We think your insights would be interesting and helpful.
:)
~Todd & Suzy
I’ll have to agree with the others – it’s your blog and thou shalt do with yer blog what thou willst. My own blog is slowly taking shape – just need to generate a nice following as you have done with yours.
Leave analysis of the medium alone. Do what you do so well. Write about what interests you.
Hi Adele, when i first saw your site and began reading the varied topics and insights I wondered why you ever named it “Spanking Model speaks” in the first place. In fact I think I came across it with a comment made on a completely un-spank related post somewhere, which goes to show that your blog is not just read by spankos.
I think you have so much more about you than that, but of course your spanking posts and fabby pics are always worth seeing too!
I think the fact that you are a great spanking model is a bi-product of your whole personality, which comes through in this blog big time.
I think you have a talent for writing and telling it how it is, and most often i tend to agree with you, so PLEASE carry on redardless?
Emz
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