This year I have to take the overdue elective course which is co-curriculum subject for my study.  I decidde to take Sport Science because I simply need to do nothing but just listen to the lecture once a week.  The class is so boring, I do not take much attention about what the lecturer is saying, I just play with Ipod Touch and sometime think about what to write for this blog, but on last week lecture it took my attention when the lecturer speak about strength and speed.  Believe it or not they both actually related – if you have high strength you will be slow in speed and vice versa.  You can take weightlifter and runner as example, weightlifter can lift more weight compare to runner but runner can run much faster compare to weightlifter because the trained differently and optimized different part of the body.  How it related to blog?

Weightlifter Blogger

For weightlifter blogger they always write post that either similar or better in quality on each post.  Which mean they always write a good stuff, but they can’t write much often.  They may write not more than two post per week because they are looking for quality instead of quantity.  For this type of blogger, you may not expect them to write everyday but every time when the did it guarantee that you will enjoy the post.

Runner Blogger

Meanwhile for runner blogger, they tend to write as many as possible so that their blog never exhausted with new post but the quality of the post is not maintained, sometime it good and sometime it just okay because they strive more on quantity compare to quality.  From this blogger you always can expect new post everyday but the quality not guaranteed will satisfy your need.

Much Better Blogger

You may fall in weightlifter kind of blogger or runner kind of blogger but the best of all if you can maintained both the important aspect of blogging – post quality and quantity.  You can’t say one of them is not important because both are important for blogger.  You can’t write rarely even it top quality because people are hungry and it also not good for your SEO stuff,  but also you can’t just update everyday but the post quality is a flaw, sometime it good and sometime it not.  The best of all you need to keep them balance, you may no need to write everyday but make sure it often and consistent and the quality of the post also need to be maintained.

So in this post we learn two kind of blogger weightlifter blogger (quality > quantity) and runner blogger (quantity > quality), but the best of all if you can be strong in both aspect quality and quantity.  Even my sport science lecturer keep saying that the best athlete is the athlete that can master in both strength and speed.  So if you really want to be a better blogger make sure you are strong enough to handle both requirement.

So what kind of blogger you think you fall in?  If you need to pick one weightlifter and runner blogger, which one you prefer?  Is it possible to maintain both?

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Stay online for most of the time not give much help for blogger, seriously.

Brain work better when you are offline especially when you do something that not related to blogging because you will not be stress out by it.

Blogging is fun for real, but blogging all the time not help you even one bit, in improving your blogging skill or even your blog.  I know people keep saying more often you do something, more expert you in that particular thing, its true I never doubt that but when you do it too much it could turn from positive into negative effect. We don’t want that, do we?

If you a soccer player and you keep training hard sure you will become better player, but if you do it too much you might injured yourself or the less is fatigue and when the on actual match you couldn’t play well and it wasted the training that you have done.  Same thing with blogging, when you do it too much you might lost the edge of your writing skill or topic.

Less time your online, more topic ideas you will get

I used to stay online for very long time just to find what to write, sure when you read other peoples blog you will get some ideas, but trust me I do get more ideas when I actually offline doing other stuff.  For example when I read books or magazines the ideas will flow in, even I not read anything close to the blogging topic.  Sometime your brain work better when you not thinking about it.  Just like when painter try to paint, he not think what he should paint instead he go to some place, like forest, fishing, watching stage play and such – suddenly the idea just came in, snap just like that.  So if you need some ideas what to write, shut you computer off and go get life.

Be in real world make you even better blogger

Even how good you are in online world, you still need to face the fact that you living on earth, the actual world.  You learn about people, how to live, how to talk, how to socialize, how to write, what to write, how to handle stress all other things – on real world.  You may learn about them online but trust me you learn better if your self experience it.  I learn more how to handle negative comment, or negative feeling about something on real world and I never can learn about it online.  Online got everything, I know but there is nothing better that actual thing.  Stop being surrogate, go out and become much much better blogger.

Online is limited, but offline no they not

You may think you can learn everything online, but people that ‘online’ actually people that living offline.  They can’t share everything, they can’t experience what you experience and they can’t think what you think so they only can teach based on their experience which is limited for you but if you experience it by yourself you learn more about it.  More thing you learn, more mature you become even in blogging.  If you stay the kid even the way you write, the way you socialize people will leave you people expect you to grow up even in blogging.  Don’t be internet junky, be real man.

As you trying your best to be excellent blogger just make sure that you get enough life because life is just like a blood for your blog body which keep pump oxygen or experience in this case to help you become better blogger.  You may think that you not have enough time to busy with the world because your job is blogger, blogger is human too they need to breath the real air because that what human do.  Make sure you keep the balance perfectly right because it important for longevity of you blog and perhaps you life.

Make sure you broaden this topic by give your own insightful thought about it, especially if you have experienced in this kind of thing.

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Growth is a good thing indeed, blog need to grow to make it better.  Growth can be described in many ways, your blog started with just 50 visitors per day and now you have 2000 visitors per day that is growth, before this you only have 10 subscribers but now you have 1000 subscriber that’s also a growth.  So growth is what every blogger want, it’s like a cup for sport.

So how growth can be a bad thing for your blog and even can kill it?

Uncontrolled growth is what we don’t want in our blog,  because it could cause us many problem especially in technical aspect and mostly it ended with your blog is doom.  Such a waste isn’t?

For example, you are using cheap hosting because that what you can afford and you blog still not make much money to buy some expensive hosting.  When you start of course the traffic is low and your server can cope with that, but suddenly you get more and more visitor, the bandwidth exhausted and you keep receive email from your hosting provider that they no longer can support your blog because of high traffic and the only option left for you is to buy semi-dedicated or dedicated server which is very expensive, because you take no action while your blog is growing, you still not make much money.  But now you already late, at the end your server no longer can cope with it and that is the bye for your blog.

That just one example, there are many different kind of growth that can cause your blog, it simply because the lack of monitoring.  Of course when we see traffic is high we are happy, but while we cherish the fact we also need to take action.  When you see your visitor increase everyday, you need to start early plan about buying the expensive server, you may increase the price for your ads or if you ads free blog you may ask donation, if you a good blogger sure there are many people willing to help.  If you are lucky, you may ask some hosting provider for sponsorship, I believe if you have good blog and the traffic is ‘well done’ sure they will be happy to sponsor you.  What left for you to do is search for one.

When you keep writing a good content, you communicate with your reader, you socialize with other people your blog definitely will grow and sometime the growth is sudden, it just happen.  So it is better if you always monitor and take action instead ‘just in time’ take it immediately.

What you think about growth could kill your blog?  Do you agree with that statement?  How to properly control your blog growth?  Hope you all can share your thought about it.

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Minimalistic as always my favorite design trend ever.  It is not because the easiness to design because there is no need for heavy graphic but because minimalistic truly focusing on what is important – content.  But now more designer design minimalistic site with complexity,  they replace graphic with some complex function to give user better experience in discovering the content.

If you think minimalistic for lazy designer, do think again.  Here some example excellent minimalistic in web design -

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