A weblog (or blog) is a very new invention going back to the end of the 90ies. Therefore it is rather hard to define what it exactly is with definitions ranging from a personal online journal to an online conversation (read more about blogs and other challenges of mass media today on The Economist). What is clear that weblogs are a social phenomena: instead of a one-way sermon as with mass-media blogs are interactive, about net-citizen raising their voices. Blogs are about individuals expressing his or her unedited voice to a very small audience of a few to many thousands a day.
I started my blog EastEatsWest in May 2005 with regard to my travels through my beloved and so adored Asia. The basic idea was to express my passion and love for Asia,clearly underlying the fact that our little planet earth is a wonderful place to discover and we should not look down on other nations, customs and traditions. Different does not mean worse. My blog is now one year old and has grown in many ways: First and foremost, my blog has inspired me to push further and learn more during my travels, to take the extra step for a picture and always and everywhere listen to people and their stories. With almost 600 pageviews in the last 7 days my blog attracts more and more traffic and with traffic comes the realization that someone actually is interested in my content and so the responsibility increases. Secondly, I added more functionality with a search function and the function of a newsletter via email. Thirdly with the Google Ads I try to at least recuperate a fraction of the costs of my blog and therefore learn about the possibilities of online advertisement. It is a stony path though.
With my journey slowly nearing its end I wonder more and more what to do with my blog in the future without the traveling: shall I stop it, shall I continue writing about my life, and about my career and thoughts about life? Shall I continue pursuing topics relating to the raise of Asia or articles I come across? Anyhow, I would like to learn from my readers, improve my blog and the quality of the entries. But for that I need to know what you, my reader, think and like about my blog. As blogs should be conversations I would like to ask you therefore a few simple questions:
1. What do you want from my blog in the future (continue, more stories, more pictures…)?
2. What do you want to read about it (travel, the raise of Asia, thoughts about life…)?
3. What kind of pictures do you want to see?
4. Which entries do you like the most (travel stories, reviews, photos, thoughts about life, links…)?
Please answer the question in posting comments. Posting a comment is very simple: just click at the bottom of this entry on the “comment” link and enter your thoughts. I am eager to hear what you, my online readers, think about my blog and how you see its future. In the end, it is also our blog.
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