Principle-Centered Blogging
Blogging has quickly become an international pastime. It has crossed across country borders, races, gender, occupations and age groups. An example of how blog-happy people have become can be seen in the very room where you are seated, reading this blog. With the explosion of this medium of delivering information, we are beginning to see bloggers emanate from all corners of the planet. While most bloggers have produced content that is making a huge difference in the world, a few have used blogging as a means to tear down others, vent about issues that they perceive to be wrong or engage in gossip. Stories abound in blogosphere of how unprincipled blogging has ruined lives. Many blogs have become avenues of opinionated thinking and closed discussion, where unwanted posts and comments are quietly deleted.
Great blogging is centered around good principles that govern human relationships. Blogging is nothing more than an extension of life to an online medium accessible to a wider audience. In my experience of reading and writing blogs, I find that people tend to lean more towards blogs that seem to be founded on correct principles. People want information that will make them successful at work, at home and in every other area of their lives. (O.k., there’s that group of readers who care about nothing more than ”the latest scoop from hollywood”).
If we are going to unleash the fulness of our potential and experience the best that life has to offer we will need to engage in blogging that is centered on culturally accepted principles. Blogging is about information dissemination. Any information that is transmitted from one human being to another ought to be geared towards empowering that other person with knowledge or skills. The challenge of blogging is to add value, not to subtract value. And when it comes to adding value, I think we are just beginning to tap into a medium that offers great potential if done right.
