Interesting... so, the question is who should not use a certain medium to express his/her opinion?

Just because you should not blog does not mean that you cannot blog.

You should not kill yourself if you lead a happy life, but if you want to, well, who can stop you?

not many are willing to make the distinction between causality and correlation
-
鳳陽本是好地方

Have replied with a dissection and counter argument to the perspective offered by the author

the most inane article i've seen in a long while..
makes no sense.

"However, blogs cannot afford to be dull - they need to be interesting to read. With over 50 million blogs on the blogosphere and the figures rising every second, the instant and reflexive action that people will take when they hit a dull article is “NEXT!” - Tan Kian Ann

I agree with the author, dull people should not blog. Just look at a sampling of some of the more boring entries we have to deal with on the blogosphere-

"A few days ago, my business and CPT mentor Mr KC See, CEO of Quest Group and MasteryAsia, announced to the community that he has started a blog!" --- oooh how exciting (sarcasm dripping), a nobody starting a new blog.

"Updates have been slow on this blog lately, and I really apologise for that. My computer is giving me really weird problems - and as I am typing this, the other partition in my hard disk where I store all my data, is lost again." ---- another humdinger, someone with hard disk problem.

"Since today is the last day of the year, and my first blogging year, I think I will make a post early today (erm… 5:46am) and then get on with the day with my other stuff." --- I can barely contain my excitement.

Incidentally, it all came from the author's blog. He's right. Dull people should not blog- starting with him.

All the bad blogs help to increase the marketability of the ones that are actually worth the time reading. Thats also one reason why Andy Ho's articles are sometimes found on the Jakarta Post
-
`自從出了朱皇帝 十年倒有九年荒`

The Andy Ho bit was rich! Hahaha...

one man's meat is another man's poison

He's basically asking "Who should not talk."
If you have nothing that HE thinks is worthwhile listening to, you should just shut up.
Sounds egotistical? It is.
Sounds nonsensical? It is.
Everyone should blog.
Everyone can choose which blog to read.

Hey there,

Thank you for your comments.

I see that there has been misunderstanding of the article, so please allow me to redeem my stand. Do check out the updated section of the post.

Thanks! :)

*YAWNZ*
NEXT

The downside of being tomorrow-ed. Taken out of context and lamblasted. But have to say, the author has managed the aftermath well.

everyone has the liberty to be heard. on the flipside, all readers have the liberty to choose whether they like to read a blog or not.

there is no harm done, its only a question of whether a reader believes in what a blogger says.

having said that, so what if a blog is dull? If my life is dull and I blog about it, there's nothing wrong. You can jolly well not read it. I still can blog all I want for the purpose of recording my dull life, no?

The writer's blog don't seem to be any less dull than other blogs I've read. He's a professional blogger somemore?

he's now complaining that people misunderstood his post. I think it's more a case of mispositioning himself. Nobody misunderstood him. He basically stabbed himself and till now is still trying to defend his stance.

blogging is just another medium of self-expression, so why limit the human body? self-censorship?

Remember the "long tail" theory by Chris Anderson? What seems dull/boring to many people could well be very interesting and even invaluable to certain people. And that could just be enough!

Also, sometimes, it's the audience who are dull/boring because they could tune in only to certain frequencies and find everything else dull/boring.

Having said that (above), I do think that whether certain people should write in certain ways (that seem boring/dull) does depend on one's goals. If one wants to reach the maximum number of people, that one needs to write for the masses or -- even to the extent of creating a "controversy" and making people talk.

I think because his blog is actually targetted towards corporate blogs lah. KNN if your company get you to write a corporate blog, but you can't take criticism or arouse interest in the readers especially from your own company or even CLIENTS, then what the frak for you blog for the company?

If you can't even help the company build a brand or give a human factor to the identity to the company, then please don't blog (for the bladdy company). What if you accidentally leak confidential info just because you have nothing better to say and end up being chopped? It's serious business to blog for a company lor.

Why you all like that? Oh I forgot - SOME Tomorrow.sg readers are like that.