[Thou Shall Blog] You Are A Blogger And Not A News Reporter
I dedicate this post to one of my friend YAN SUSANTO, who used to blog about blogging tips and tricks on the blog with same name.
Today we are talking about whether blogging is all about expressing our opinions and thoughts or just about scripting breaking news. No doubt the biggest blogs we know like TechCrunch, mashable, LifeHacker and Gizmodo; all give you latest Technology and Web 2.0 updates but we must not forget that these blogs run on multi author, blogging company model.
Blogging is all about writing your opinion on latest happenings in your blog niche. As a blogger better not speak about Apple lunching all new iPad 2 rather you should be writing your experience with tablet computers and how it’s going to be a rocking life saver to pro bloggers and tech geeks.
#1 it will establish you as an authority in your niche;
The best thing about writing your very own opinion on your blog is that it proves you as an authority in your blog niche, the one who writes pure original valuable content and your readers benefit from it.
#2 Your Opinion matters
You start a blog, people start visiting it, and they read your content, make comments and ultimately the blogging process build a relationship between your and your blog readers. They visit again and again on your blog because they love to read your story, opinion and thoughts on a certain subject/niche. They regard and value your opinion. They follow your steps and they respect your authority on the subject. It build a personal and long-lasting relationship. On the other hand if you keep on writing breaking news on your blog you readers may search for alternative sites where they find news coming fast and in a more illustrative form.
#3 It intriguers discussions
Opinion post calls for your readers to put their two cents in response. It encourages your readers to make a thoughtful comment where as a breaking news post would mostly gets “great news” “oh, I really don’t know about it” sort of comments. Your insightful opinion on a subject allows your readers to take the subject to the next level and it helps create a healthy discussion in form of comments.
It time now for you to write your opinion about this post in comments below. 
In blogging your opinion and relation matters a lot. If you are a strong member of blogging community and have deep research in your niche, you are successful.
Well this is something which requires a deep thought, a blogger not only has to share his openion and also has to come up in a creative way to keep the attention of the readers…
Which sometimes may sound as news reporting
great post.Agree with all you listed above …..and also thanks for remembering us that we are bloggers …lolz
Thanks for shairng this useful post…i am new reader here but i found very interesting and informative articles here …thanks for taking time to write these helpful post..nice work
Nice post friend. I liked your approach towards this post. You have really awaken all news-cautious bloggers who are in a rat-race to post news on their blogs. I loved to read your second point. Opinion really matters.
Well this is something which requires a deep thought, a blogger not only has to share his openion and also has to come up in a creative way to keep the attention of the readers…
I was looking for the thou shall blog . com site so I google it and stumble upon this. I was an avid reader 3 years ago. Turns out they have redirect their domain name to a different one.
Anyway, the sites you have mentioned – TechCrunch, mashable, LifeHacker and Gizmodo appeals more to me as an internet magazine – not a blog
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I understand that..but news are important part of blog and once you get listing in Google news.
It’s true, I came across a number of blogs that contain nothing but the news I read in the newspaper everyday. I don’t read those kind of blogs though. It’s ok to write about a news with ones own views about it.
I just like blogging and never thought of giving out news, but still i would like to get listed in the google news.
Absolutely! Blogger is definitely not a reporter, people would not like to read something that has been published on the web, so you don’t need to repeat the news again and again. You can write about the news unless you have your own opinion. For example, there’s a news about latest bug or virus on the web, so you may write something about how to prevent or solve the problem (if you know how to), the post would drive a lot of traffic.
Nice post Shanker!
Regards,
Lee Ka Hoong