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Brian Gorrell’s Advice to Bloggers
Controversial Australian blogger Brian Gorrell, famous for his exposes on Philippine high society, offers five bits of advice to his Filipino counterparts at iBlog4. Here they are summarized with my personal annotations.
1) Maintain your personal, emotional, and physical health. Otherwise, you’ll end up like those stressed-to-death bloggers featured in the New York Times. This is actually one of the reasons I go to the gym.
2) The blog is always hungry. Decide how often you’ll feed it depending on why you need it.
3) Not everyone’s gonna like you. Longtime readers of my blog know this. 😉
4) Don’t edit yourself. Brian emphasizes confidence. Personally, I find editing yourself too much makes you sound inauthentic, and people on the Internet have strong bullshit radars.
5) Try not to get swept up in your blog. My first blog was named Information Narcosis, because I blogged whenever I got high on information. I blogged because I was swept up in my blog. When Steve Rubel helped me realize that my blog could help bring about positive change in the world, I renamed my personal blog The Mike Abundo Effect. Don’t get swept up, and you’ll make waves.
Good advice. Brian hasn’t been blogging very long, but his role in Philippine society is making him learn the ropes very quickly.
