It’s a Friday night and  we’re all raring to get out of the office and have a life…a night life that is. I texted Aris and asked him where they were and he said that they were waiting for me at Megamall.

Unfortunately, I didn’t see his text right away and by the time I got back to him, he and Mike had already separated and gone home. I finally left the office with Marlyn, Tina, Julius, John Ray, Maryan and Wilma.

We originally planned to buy bread from French Baker but there was a event going on at the Mega Strip where a band was playing and Colt Ice was being distributed to the guests.

Marlyn indicated that she wanted to drink some beer so
Tina and I joined her while the others went home. Colt Ice was being
sold for only P20 a bottle and we stayed around to listen to the groovy
music.

Listening to the music of the band Intense at the Mega Strip last May 20

The band Intense was the opening act of the night and they were quite good too. Freestyle was supposed to perform but it was getting late so we went home at around 11 PM.

Blogs are (or can be):

Personal and Accessible

    * From what I’ve seen by surfing at Blog Explosion for the past several weeks, many blogs are, in essence, intensely personal. People seem to show a lot of their personalities through their blogs. For example, they tend to write about what they’re interested in, their views, their values, their hopes, aspirations, dreams, fears, experiences, etc. I see the personal blog in many ways as being the modern incarnation of the personal home pages that people often put together a few years ago. Back then, many people probably used a free web site provided by their Internet service provider. They may have used the free web page building tools that typically came with these sites. There were a few problems with this type of site, however. For one thing, almost nobody visited the sites because the sites weren’t advertised widely. Also, the software used to create the web pages was often limited and therefore people were only able to create the most basic sites. Bottom line - people didn’t know about these sites and the sites themselves were probably not very compelling so there weren’t many visitors.

Fast forward to today: Blogs are everywhere and services like Blog Explosion and various blog directories and portals are helping people get more exposure to their sites.

Expressive

  * I see this as a major reason why blogging is so popular nowadays. With blogging, people get the chance to express themselves, usually through writing, but sometimes through other means as well, including photos, graphics, drawings, cartoons, sounds, etc. It seems that the main driving force behind this aspect of blogging is people have a chance to be heard—to have others read their words and view their sites and perhaps respond via comments.

Social

    * Bloggers, it would seem, tend to gravitate towards blogs that interest them, or, perhaps, blogs that push them to think about things in new and different ways. Blogging is, in a way, a very social activity with a lot of give and take between participants. This adds to an overall sense of community amongst bloggers.

Immediate and fresh

    * With the rise in popularity of RSS (Really Simple Syndication), updates to blogs can be propagated around the Internet in seconds. People can subscribe to the RSS feeds of blogs they are interested in. The immediacy of blogging has some drawbacks, however. If a person doesn’t update their site on a somewhat regular basis, readers might find their site to be "stale" and might stop visiting. So, most people seem to make the effort to update their sites periodically, sometimes every day. Content that is updated frequently tends to draw people back for more.

Viral

    * If someone leaves a comment, along with their e-mail address and the URL for their own blog on another person’s blog, someone else might come by and read the submitter’s comment and visit their site. This process where people leave little traces of the existence of their blog all over the place makes the whole process of blogging very viral in nature. I suspect that this is one of the main ways that blogs spread around the Internet.

Simple

    * In my experience at least, putting together a basic blog is not very difficult, especially with tools that are available from services such as blogger.

Expandable

    * There are powerful free and commercial blog management and publishing tools available for those who want to produce a blog that goes beyond the basics. Some of these tools are very flexible and feature-rich, including my favorite, ExpressionEngine from pmachine.

Focused

    * Many, though certainly not all, blogs are focused in that they tend to have a general theme. For example, some blogs are focused on knitting; some on being a mom or a dad; some on politics; some on personal experiences; some on sports; some on marketing, etc. The fact that most blogs tend to have at least a general theme means people can seek out blogs that interest them and save those blogs in some way in a list of favorites.

Diverse

    * There’s an incredible variety of blogs available, which makes the whole process of discovering new and interesting blogs an adventure in and of itself.

Cheap

    * There are several free blogging services out there, including Blogger. One can get started with blogging for very little cost.

Fast

    * I’ve noticed that some blogs tend to load slowly, but most seem to load pretty quickly. I suspect this is partially due to the fact that most (but not all) blogs aren’t overloaded with graphics that can slow down the  process of displaying pages.

Content Rich

    * I think that blogs, by their very nature, tend to encourage people to create content that encourages people to visit regularly. Providing content that others want to see, especially if it is updated regularly, is what keeps people coming back again and again for more.

Posted by binventive 

My Bloginality is ENFP!!!

You are an ENFP!

As an ENFP, you are Extraverted, iNtuative, Feeling , Perceiving.
This makes your primary focus on Extraverted Intuition with Introverted Feeling.

This is defined as a NF personality, which is part of Carl Jung’s Idealist (Identity Seeking) type, and more specifically the Champions or Inspirer.

As a weblogger, you may not be consistant in posts. Although, if you
find a specific focus on their journal or a very flexible manner of
writing, it may be more fufilling. Because you are warm and see so many
posibilities in life, you may inspire others to follow in your
footsteps with a journal.

What’s your BLOGinality?