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Ramblings Reposted

Just reposting my One year old blog Ramblings . These are times of Recession and creativity drought ;-) Now you gonna bear the brunt!

With my previous ramblings largely appreciated by friends undeterred possessing great patience and tolerance, I dare ramble further my musings on iland.

How good is a blog? Does any Parameters exist that could be considered to decide the might of a blog! Is there a blogometer? Even if one is invented it might be tampered like our autometers! Now what decides the quality of a blog and who decides that? Usually the number of comments is considered a yardstick to decide how good a post is. But somehow I don’t go with it. The more active you are on iland the more comments you get. As you keep visiting more ilands your friends in turn visit your iland out of curiosity or courtesy or maybe tit for tat and your blog naturally gets more comments. But ilanders who are not very active and social but post great writeups and poems get just a handful of comments. Doesn’t mean that their blog is not up to the mark It is just that there are not many hits in their pages. I presume my posts that received hardly a few comments fit into this category (pun intended lols)


Now I wonder what is up to the mark !I don't think there is any such thing on blogland. Blogging is just penning down thoughts and feelingsand posting anything to everything..As we pour ourself into words it certainly gives a pleasure .creativity!! I don't talk about bloggers who are quite professional and adept in their writeups! I am talking about me kinda people!!


Some are so prolilfic in blogging and so active going on a gb posting spree on iland leaves me wondering


1.Whether iland is there home as they seem to lounge here all the day


2.Whether they get any income under the cover for ilanding round the clock


3. Whether they brush, bathe, eat and sleep leave alonoe going for work


4. Whether their boss has gone on a long leave


5. If the poor guys were laid off by their companies


6. Or fired by the companies for spending all the productive hours blogging and chatting


7. Or have they gone totally crazy!!


Now its all purely for fun and no offence intended on any ilanders or my dear friends over here;) Even I too hang out for long in virtual space during leisure though not regularly. Blogging gives the anonymity to express thoughts daringly minus inhibition which would not have been expressed at all in real many a time. All the leg pulling doing the rounds in gbs itself boasts of great wits and creativity!! Gbs are sms that you can post without being charged. It will put all the leading mobile networks to shame. But the serious lot convert gbs into forums of serious discussions and exchange of thoughts. I kinda stay away from such exchanges mostly though I try to pretend to be into serious discussions at times. Being an ilander and having our own isle here gives us sense of belonging! Ilanding is fun and one of the best friendship networks though it is addictive..Wanna Deaddicted?(Though I know that the answer would be a big NOO) It is possible only by more ilanding!!

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  1. Prototype X says

    every ones got the recessionary readers block!

  2. Jissy Thomas says

    You said it … I took a month to post my pictorial blog … And all the while I was feeling guilty as to why I am taking so long … Now that I have posted one, I am relieved .. :D

  3. Aria says

    I have pondered over the same many times.. but then I”ve been accused of spending too much time on blogs when I started this journey (not on iLand.. some other place ..) I guess blogging is addictive and so one finds despite a grueling schedule…

  4. TheMind Speaks says

    I wasn”t able to read this a yr back when u posted it. We weren”t added then! See less of socialising my end ;) In fact I have been through all these phases, and can relate to every word you say. I would get really dismayed when I started blogging, with low hits. Whilst others got big time hits. Then I got into a deep philosophical phase where in how and when, and what people do to get comments was a topic of research. Eventually I gave up totally on the thought of getting drowned by comments; coz I do fall in the category: Am not an active blogger+plus I dont hang out every day on iland, with no socialising!! What started giving me pleasure and satisfaction was being anonymous and using a Pseudo Name n writing all that came to my mind, free of all inhibitions. The way write-ups liberated me, that feeling each day made me love iland more. Cheers to ur ramblings. I totally agree with each line and each word, letter, feeling :)

  5. usha dhana says

    haha… cool… I have been away for more than 3 months.. still my mind was roaming inside the iland only…