In an Age of Reposts, How Many People Still Love Writing Their Own Stories?
Translated from Chinese by Claude. Read the original
I’ve been running an indie blog for over six months now. In March I was a total newbie who couldn’t even install WordPress and had customer support do it for me. Now I’m a rookie who can handle a VPS and has his own theme.
Lately I’ve been wondering about something: why are there so many indie blogs? Why are so many people still stuck at the WordPress beginner stage……
In an age where reposting runs rampant, an age where people only write about trending topics, how many people still love writing their own stories? Put it this way: someone who loves writing their own stories has a successful blog. If you’re reposting news, that’s not called a blog. If you’re doing it for IPs and traffic, go ahead and repost all you want. All I’ll say is, you must be damn bored! (I admit I’ve done this myself)
How many people write their own stories, I don’t know. Most write about whatever is hot, and their blogs have no theme…… wandering aimlessly forever, until in the end all that’s left is an empty shell running WordPress.
Write your own stories, write your own views. Don’t write about things that have nothing to do with you or with your blog’s theme…… Don’t be so bored that you’ll write about anything……
A while ago, while I was working on my own blog theme and such…… I put together a few WordPress posts. I admit my blog also went down the wrong path before…… but I’ve fixed that now. For example, this post, Back to Top, the Perfect Version, was written for a certain kid…… he didn’t know how, so I wrote it up……
I’m planning a website…… I intend to make it one of the most famous sites of 2011. I have a lot of sites on my hands…… I don’t even know how to manage them all. My favorite symbol is this one……
To friends using WordPress, I want to say: WordPress is only a tool for blogging. What matters is your blog’s content.
If you started out wanting to write your own stories but ended up researching WordPress, snap out of it and get back to your posts…… Don’t waste your effort on WordPress skins…… Trust me, you’re worth it
Actually, modifying WordPress themes isn’t that hard. The main problem is that nobody has translated the most important WordPress resource, the Codex…… That’s a tragedy…… (I’m planning to start translating the Codex. It’s public, anyone can join in)
PS: About 360 vs. QQ, what I want to say is
360 is software made by the father of all rogueware with loads of venture capital. It never managed to make money, so now it’s going for broke, trying to use privacy to take down Tencent and the other antivirus makers. A leopard can’t change its spots. If 360 gets its way, it’s the users who will end up paying sooner or later.
I really do find 360 a bit of a gossip…… In its counterattack on QQ it even dragged up the business about Ma Huateng receiving XXX…… A tragedy for China’s IT industry.
My study-abroad plans have been pushed back a year, so I have plenty of time to prepare. In a year I’ll be 18.