Some of my friends, after knowing that I’m a blogger, they think it’s cool. Honestly I don’t know what is it so cool about that exposing my daily life on the Internet. However, they started to pick up blogging as well. Some started pretty good, some never good and went into death blog and gone afterward. It is interesting to see how people giving into blog but never thought about how to maintain it. I would like to explain this in a more… Human way. Did you ever heard people saying when a guy picking up a hot chick, they are patience; when the guy got the hot chick, he is getting bored? That is exactly how my friends started their blog. Judging from how they treat the blog might indirectly tell me how their relationship going to be

Anyway, speaking of blogging. From my previous surfing, they stated that every seconds there’re more than a thousand blog created with fresh content. Back in 2000, when the word “weblog” started to introduce to the whole world, I was thinking to myself that, sooner or later, all my search result from Google are going to be weblog instead of the real informative / respective company websites. Now it happen. From there on, the whole Internet started to transform, more and more opportunities are coming in. Here are some of my humble observant list…

1, Advertising revenue

More and more advertisers looking for blog as their advertising media. Simply because they (blog) are ahead of advertisers listed in Google. Well, one can argue that the advertisers can straight away advertise with Google using the infamous Google Adwords. Yes, they can, but having a limited budget, one advertiser can get more exposure on the Internet (read: including regions and countries) than Google Adwords can provide.

2, Attention

I don’t know how truth is it. But in Jack Neo’s movie “I’m not stupid 2″, the story tells a teenager gets his attention from his blog. With the help of Twitter, this become a stronger point. Be it product attention or personal attention, a blog is a free publicity of everything.

3, Dependency

Ok, this is the part I hate but love the most. How many of you depend on blogs to give you: 1, humor of the day; 2, news of the day; 3, inspiration of the day; 4, research of your hobbies. Really, RSS is useful because of blog. If there’s no blog, there’s no use of RSS, unless you’re with Times, CNN and etc. I have to admit, I read blog more than any other else to get my daily knowledge (yes, a little over emphasizing, but it’s true).

4, Design improvement

I’m a advertising student, coming from a advertisement field, I saw the improvement in advertisement is creativity and photo quality. On web design? Not only web is becoming more demand over the world, the design also keep on changing and changing. Check into web archive for Geocities design…

1996 to 1999, nothing much improve. Still using the same old structure. How about a year later just when blogging are started to booming the Internet?

Not to mention, check how they look now. By the way, a more advance improvement, you should check Yahoo! archive too

I wonder how web technology can improve as well. Ajax was introduced in 2005, which only a 4 year-old technology that already been wildly used on most new website nowadays. Hope to see more of those coming out to ease a web designer job… I mean the Flash based web has been declining since… Erm… Save for next time

Tags: Design, Internet