"The Average Joe will fail to make a living from blogging," (Steve) Pavlina said. "But the Average Joe will fail at every other serious long-term endeavor anyway. If you want to succeed in blogging, you can't be average because people don't want to visit and read average blogs. Average is boring." (from an article in the San Francisco Gate)
Steve Pavlina (according to the article) makes about 40 Grand per month blogging. If money is king, I guess he's right. Luckily, I don't plan on making a penny from this blog, so being average will have to do.
I'm glad that being average is not against the law (the way he describes the "Average Joe", I wonder if he considers *being* average very unacceptable. Who does he think reads his blog? Superman?). Otherwise I'd be posting from my jail cell. And is it true that the average person will fail at every serious long-term endeavor? Are we a world populated by failures?
No matter. I disagree with him. Average is not a dirty word. And the average person is not a waste of space. Most of the people I know hover around average, and they still have great value. I'm not saying that we should avoid trying to be better people; I simply believe that, in this world of striving for things, if one is average, it's not a cause over which to lose sleep.
Philosophy aside, I plan to blog about the wee part of the world I live in. If you stumble upon this blog and like it, I'm happy for you (and for me). If you happen upon this blog and are bored, perhaps you should try Pavlina's bolg - I'm sure it's much more interesting.
In any case, I hope you have a fulfilling day. If average is as bad as it gets, wouldn't most of the world be a better place? (Hmmm...I'll have to think about that.)
on blogging for money: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/12/BUJSRRJ9H.DTL&ao=2#ixzz0zoYxk3A3
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