Is Blogging Helping The Environment?

Since I have been busy for the last few weeks – I just wanted to write a short post (and hopefully start a discussion) about recycling. During these few months I have spent online as a blogger, checking out other peoples blogs, I have come to realize that new and unique topics, subjects or opinions are hard to come by. Is blogging really helping the environment or is it a bad thing that bloggers are recycling each others material?

Being unique

All beings are unique by default. Seems pretty easy right? All you have to do is be born, and you’re unique – right there – instantly – on the stop –  for the rest of your life. Although some people try extra to separate themselves from others by getting a unique hairstyle or clothes combination and even if they fail at that, they are still unique.

So how do you do it on the Internet? How do you get a new hairstyle on your My Space page, your blog or your corporate website? Do you just learn how to be a professional web designer or is there something more to it? With all of the multilingual and multicultural differences, how do you communicate your message across the wire and staying unique and original in the process?

In my personal opinion, people lack the time and money to experiment – so they just go with whatever the know works. Why would I think of (and experiment with) a new blog layout when I know that a content column and a sidebar column works perfectly fine?

Tell me, how do YOU stay unique? Do you even try? What is more important to you, visual or intellectual uniqueness?

A while ago I come across a great posts from a blog-friend of mine called Bilal Rammuy (Rob) who wrote about “How To Stand Out As A Blogger” on his RobsWebTips blog, which you can check out on the link.

Are bloggers just recycling each others material?

When was the last time you read something you have never read before, anywhere else? It rarely to me but maybe I am not looking in the right places. Some people I know really have strong opinions and they express them frequently on their blogs. Those kinds of posts get a lot of attention, it seems. Being unique is something that could separate the success from the failure.

Is there a point where you could be trying to much? You want to be unique sooo bad that you are writing strange stuff, that people can not understand. You are writing curse words in your posts, making fun of people with jokes that often have questionable moral standards?

What I found particularly interesting is how people tend to read a blog post (or any text) somewhere in a foreign language, translate it to their own language and then post the exact article with some minor changes or just re-format the article where they would just write a summary about it. I imagine this is hard to figure out when trying to protect yourself against copy-writing, you would have to know the language. But this method is somewhat like a perfect crime, isn’t it?

Conclusion

I have asked a lot of questions in this blog posts hoping to get a lot of feedback and discussion from all my readers. Ping-back reply posts are welcome as well. Hope you have a nice Easter planed for yourself and your family. Have a nice (extended) weekend and don’t forget to share this post, if you like it!