Blogging for living

times are changin' ya booo!! i know that blogs are recently high on popularity, but never realized that people do actually make a living out of it. Cerita lama sih, tapi gue baru nyadarnya hari ini aja.

there's this one blog I accidentally found on a local newspaper, called allmenareliars. His blog makes a page of the newspaper's website. Ok, i'm not sure if it's published on the paper copy as well or not, but it's on regular updates on the website.

Then, having read the sidebar of some online newspapers, apparently, lots are doing the blogging thing in their websites!

i shudnt be that surprised sih sebenernya. maksud gue, liat aja bloggers turn pro-writers di Indonesia aja udah banyak. Perlu kasi contoh?
dedengkotnya mungkin si Raditya Dika kali ya. itu loh, si kambing jantan! si penulis blog yang proudly admit his blog won some online-blogging-award thingy few years ago (sebelum doi terkenal dan menulis buku!). Bukunya dia yang laris manis itu ya kembaran si blog-yang-menang-award. ergo, he's blogging for living. well, eventually.

contoh ke dua, miund.
secara gue belom pernah baca buku gokilnya dia, tapi pernah di ceritain dari si temen katanya ya mirip Raditya dika. isi blog tumplek jadi buku. so gue assume, she's bukti no.2 that blogs for a living.

Although for their cases, I know blogging ain't entirely for living, secara mereka punya full time job that consumes most of their day times (prolly nite too?).

Gue gak kenal sam de brito si allmenareliars, tapi maybe he's paid good enuf to make blogging as his main income.

Other classical example, although not exactly real character, is miss carrie bradshaw. I mean, c'mon! Who here don't know her?? You're missin' a very good tv show, my friend. hehehe

For those not in the know, ms carrie bradshaw is one of the characters in sex and the city tv show, who writes for a living. Tulisan2 dia tentang sex dan new york (ie manhattan), kayaknya gak jauh beda dari what people blogs thesedays deh. Although, of course, not everything they blogs are about their sex life! tapi you know, things that happen around them, about them. same thing goes to allmenareliars. he writes whatever on his mind, tentang sesuatu yang menarik yang pernah dia baca, atau tentang pengalaman dia, atau tentang keadaan di sekitar dia.

heck, I write about those things too! again, not sex life.

Mungkin bener ya, blogging nowadays is a free public journalism. There's no laws made for free speech on blogging yet, is there? Crazy how times changed, huh.

people can just write crap, got published on the web (if lucky, on online newspapers), and other people reads them. crazy.

There are easy roads for popularity, and fast.
no no no, i don't mean a shot on playboys, FHM, or Zoo. thats just silly.
All you need is just spare times, computer + internet, and a blog hosting (wordpress,blogger,multiply,etc). oh! and you have to have the interest in writing too! :)

tapi tentu aja, blogging gak cuma menulis. you can do photoblog, or jualan online! some people have done that, you know. but i'm not here to talk about those, its out of topic!

I wonder if these people (sam de brito, carrie bradshaw?, dkk) merasa terbebani dengan blogging karena its their job? you know, like deadlines, writer's block and stuff. Raditya Dika dan Miund mungkin not so much karena, ya tadi, adanya full time job di sisi mereka yang mungkin udah meraup sebagian waktu tapi udah mengisi sebagian bank account mereka.

It's funny to think that just for blogging, you'd get writer's block? while we blog mostly on our leisure times about things that these people blogs about but writer's block free. Although, they prolly have more sophisticated words and phrases we sometimes have no match to.

yet it's better to blog just for the fun side of it.
at my leisure times where no writer's block can pressure me.

do you prefer to blog for a living?