Conflict of Interest: A Blogger’s Dilemma?

A cup of tea’s worth of talk, and nothing to lose but a spare ear and time.

It has always been an issue on whether a blog’s interests are aligned to the general audience’s tastes or not. The forever cycle of writing and reading has always worked that way since paperback, time immemorial. However, with the current caliber of how flurries of text are being read in more ways than one surely puts a defining line between general and personal interest.

It’s funny how preferences work in both ways for blogging. Writing either puts it in effect of a target audience (general), or the writer’s say on things (personal). Reading puts it either on the say of the public (general), or the opinions of the selected few (personal). If that is so, then would that divide the blogging community as simple as how Shikieki Yamaxanadu can judge the totality of people as black and white?

For some people, it’s an essential feature as to what the writing is all about in a general sense. It has been repeated many times on my case, reminding me on how I should write something that would strike the readers as well as myself, concocting a correlation between two definitive factors. If I were to put myself in priority, that would mean writing comfortably, not having deadlines, and having posts mainly on the opinion and editorial side. If I think about the readers, that would mean writing something that would spark attention and discussion at the first sight of the writing, or having to write something fresh out of the source. Time, content, relevance, and length are also factors of perception, but most of the posts out there are effectively seen as black and white: the one that is received, and the one that is understood.

Bloggers are writing, please watch warmly until it is ready.

But is there a semantic by which you can categorize a post? With the evolution of the ways we read and write, desired outcomes are done mix-and-match style. And it’s not always like there is a common way to simply put things the way they were intended to. So does that mean it would all boil down to preferences of both the writer and the reader, and just that? In a way, yes. It would spawn discussion to see how perceptions of two people would fare over a single topic. It would be debated, talked about, and passed from one person to another. But ultimately setting everything aside, doesn’t it just serve the ultimate purpose: to be written and read, even if only by the author himself/herself?

I still have a long way for my writing, and I’m far from over on getting my hands on what may be called TRUE BLOGGING. It may be just me being meticulous about how I write, but I’m sure I’m not alone on thinking about how important these factors are if I were to make sure my messages are conveyed. And since time is forever changing, so does time forever change the ways of writing.

For writing to be unique, it has to evolve after all.