What Does Blogging Mean to Me!

Stephanie tagged me based on the work of Cuckoo.

Rules of this tag:
1. Name the person with link who tagged you.
2. Complete the questionnaire without changing the questions.
3. Tag 6 or more people.

Q1. Are you happy/ satisfied with your blog, with its content and look?

Yes. This blog accomplished what it set out to be what my concept originally was, a blog in and out of homelessness.

Q2. Does your family know about your blog?

Yes. My immediate family shares the same computer, so that's a gimme. They know to make way when I go out with the camera when something's going on..."Watch out...Daddy's gonna BLOG!". While it's a running joke with them, they've each contributed by asking if certain things would be good to post, many which I have.

Q3. Do you feel embarrassed to let your friends know about your blog or you just consider it as a private thing?

No way. My work knows it, locally on up to the corporate level. My peers know it. I've told my bus driver, my dentist, and got the girl who fit my eyeglasses to say "JohnC is SO SEXY!" for it to be posted on my blog. The way I figure it, it's a good tool to get rid of posers who aren't genuine and would be afraid to be mentioned on it...and there's been a handful of those who seem to have drifted off and not bother me. :)

Q4. Did blogs cause positive changes in your thoughts?

Yes. I don't use them as crying towels, but they're therapeutic. You get to see you're not alone. I've also found creative outlet through blogging that would have gone unseen and lost.

Q5. Do you only open the blogs of those who comment on your blog or you love to go and discover more by yourself?

I set time for both. I blog at night and hold a day job that's really physically demanding. Some nights I hit other sites hitting me. There's some nights I surf Fuelmyblog, where I both moderate the forum and do a weekly review of one of it's members on their team blog. Sometimes I do both, sometimes I do ten things at once and add notes to my tasks in Outlook for followup. What was the question again?

Q6. What does visitors counter mean to you? Do you care about putting it in your blog?

I use SiteMeter on all my sites, Google Analytics, Yahoo Explorer...etc. Not so much for visitor count, but to get an idea of why people are hitting my site.

Q7. Did you try to imagine your fellow bloggers and give them real pictures?

No, but having a MyBlogLog panel where I can see quickly; rather than go through posts or email; who's returning and responding is easier.

Q8. Do you think there is a real benefit for blogging?

Yeah, it gives people the ability to ask stupid questions like that in a meme. Just kidding, seriously...the benefit is freedom of speech, expression, being heard, and listening. You give what you want, you get what you want...or get it elsewhere. It's educational, it's social, it's informational, it's 'all that'.

Q9. Do you think that bloggers’ society is isolated from real world or interacts with events?

There's both. The isolated 'cliques' that are just cults when you get down to it, and the ones that bridge the outside world bringing that information to the online community, and sometimes the other way. I've also seen stuff go in, out, and cycle clockwise/counterclockwise where much is learned and shared by both worlds.

Q10. Does criticism annoy you or do you feel it’s a normal thing?

Productive critique is productive. Slam/bitch fests aren't. If your not part of the solution, your part of the problem...blah blah blah. I tend to take productive critique to heart and consider it's value. If it's worthy, it's added to my knowledge base. If it's putz like what many self professed 'life coaches' shovel, it is what it is.

Q11. Do you fear some political blogs and avoid them?

No. I actually hit John Kerry's site and he left me a comment...or one of his people did. Bill Clinton probably hates me, since he hung up on me when I called him once. True story. I hope Hillary gets in office so I can call him up and say 'Hi First Lady!'.

Q12. Did you get shocked by the arrest of some bloggers?

Anybody can get arrested. Cops and Feds aren't the judge and jury. That's the thing many people don't understand. People can get arrested for the stupidest things, then again others don't get caught for murder.

Q13. Did you think about what will happen to your blog after you die?

My son will handle things when the time comes. Wanna know more, don't stop reading. lol

Q14. What do you like to hear? What’s the song you might like to put a link to, in your blog?

Sheesh, I used to be a disc jockey in the 80's. That's the reason for the newly introduced Youtube daily video entries. lol.

The Victims

I chose these 'targets' for the same reason. Each one's blog readership would appreciate getting into the head of the writer behind the content they regularly read.

Joey, Blogprince of Jacksonville. Deal with it.

Jackie, if a lawyer can do that blog imagine if we had judges with that perspective.

Kevin, the Godfather of homeless blogging.

DP. There's a time to be a gentleman, a man, and an arse. Two out of three ain't bad.

Gabrielle, for style, class, and hoping that book kicks butt.

Zubli, because people want to know what he thinks.