I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about blogging in general over the last few days. What does it mean do own a blog like The Cool Crowd (not that it’s even that popular…)? The Cool Crowd is currently averaging about 100 unique visitors daily and we’re making about us$30 / month from AdSense. So it’s not a huge thing really, but does this justify us paying the domain, the web hosting and spending time on designing the blog?

Sure, everyone is blogging these days and blog is totally POP culture. And we know we’re doing this, because it’s a geeky hobby and that it’s actually fun just to type words and have it appear on a worldwide stage. But where does this whole blogging thing take us?

I’m sure that it’s sounding like I’m whining about this, but I’m actually just thinking out loud.

There’s just stuff that bothers me about blogging - especially blogging about topic-specific stuff (like we do here). I don’t think that personal-type diary blogs fall into this rant, but then again, those blogs are just self-glorified efforts of lonely people to be liked.

How many blogs just copy posts on other blogs? What is unique content? I know I get “inspiration” (read: information) for my posts from the various blogs I read on a daily basis. I guess my question is that if so many bloggers just post what they read on another blog, where did the unique content start? Is it possible to trace the information back to the source? Sure, a lot of more the more popular blogs (Techcrunch and Mashable! are examples) get the news before anyone else and they blog about it? But this is not the case for the Average Joe Blogger…

So blogging is just the circulation and distribution of information in the end!?

I don’t really have an answer to this and therefor we’ll probably continue to blog in the way we’re used to. We like posting YouTube videos and graphics to every post, because we are visually-inclined. But we can’t claim to be original in any way, because we are indeed doing what so many other bloggers are doing - we’ve just gone one step further and registered the domain…

End of the mindless(??) rant.