I enjoy blogwalking, because there’s so much informations, quirks, opinions or blabbing that worth to read. But this post make me wonder whether I am reading and visiting too much blogs. There’s a pros and cons, of course. One of the advantage of visiting so many blogs or subscribing to their feeds is you have a lot of information and always keep updates of what happened in this world. Also it can be the source of inspiration.

The ultimate cons is time consumption. And the anger from your boss when he caught you slacking (you can always give reason : for research). Anyhow, it’s necessary to develop your effective and efficient ways to read or to visit blogs.

One way to deal with some of these blog-reading downsides would be to change how I organize my RSS feeds. Currently, they’re organized by topic — I have a set of feeds for “productivity”, another on “writing”, a third on “education”, and so on.There are a few topics I try to read at least partially every day, and some I only read when I get around to it. But maybe I should adopt a system I’ve seen some others use, categorizing by priority?

My current reader is set to daily, monthly, and blogger. How about you?

Do You Read To Many Blogs

Com’ ment`er n. 1. One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.

I sometimes do the blogwalking and left some comments in another blogger’s blog. By the time, I visited my 20th something blog, I can’t even remember what comment I left on the first blog. If you cannot remember what comment you left in another person blog, how can the owner even remember your comment among many?

From now on i’m trying to be a Stealr Commenter on other blog. That’s a phrase i come up on my head to describe comments that can steal attention from the original blog (like movie’s scene stealer). Remember Rachel Maryam in Arisan?). How you do it? Well, I can think one or two things.

1. Add another missing angle from the original post. Have some facts to back it up and not just your opinion.
2. Single sentence is illegal. Write at least two or more lines and not some alternative of premium. Don’t make comment at all if you only need to left your fingerprint in someone else’s blog.
3. Write something different. A poem, something funny, something weird, writing that so in-your-face but still relevant to the post.

Today, a simple comment, tomorrow, a 400 pages books (with 1600 simple comment) =D.

If you’re Indonesian and you create a blog, you might prefer using indonesian language rather than more universally accepted language like English. Some mixed it up a little using both language mainly because you don’t give a damn to translate it in your blog main language. Well, there’s some advantages on using either one of the language on your blog.

Indonesian language  :

• Easier to write a post because you’re writing using your native language.
• You will be accepted on Indonesian reader because it’s easier to understand.
• Reader will easily guess what the writer’s nationality is.

English language:

• Harder to write unless you’re already so good beyond belief with your english.
• Your readers’ circle grows because foreign people (expatriate included) that understand english can read your blog.
• Although it somewhat obvious, reader can be confused with your nationality.

The main thing is what the purpose of your blog is. If you’re creating blog as your diary, you’ll prefer an indonesian blog, but if you want to get more various kind of reader or to encourage indonesian people to learn english, try to write your blog in almost grammatically correct English