Earning Money

After spending a considerable amount of time reading and re-reading Glen’s post over at ProBlogger.net about Finding Your Blog DNA, I decided I would write a retort.  Now, part of my urge to write this article is because I am a biology major and I’ve always been intrigued by the chemical and biological makeup of DNA.  But, there is another reason I wanted to write this retort and that was because of my own opinion behind it. 

Each person’s DNA is different, this much is true, but just how different are we talking?  There was an experiment done that said we are all 99.9% the same.  That means that the person to the right of me is 99.9% the same as me.  Another experiment said we humans are 99.5% the same.  Now, in the biological world, those four tenths is a lot, but as you can see, we’re all very similar. We have the same hearts, the same skin, the same eyes, the same brains.  We’re all built the same way.  So, perhaps that .1% of that .4% is the color of my hair, eyes, skin, etc…

Now, Glen brought up two terms that I am going to use here: musers and reporters.  Musers are those that write based on an inspiration while a reporter’s sole purpose is to write the facts.  Now, from my interpretation of this article, I came to the conclusion that Glen found a distinct difference between the two and unfortunately, I don’t see that the same way.  Perhaps when it comes to the New York Times and then your average blogger like myself, but when it becomes a distinct comparison between two ‘types’ of bloggers, I think that the two are very similar. 

I would consider myself a muser, but even then, I follow a structure.  I think everyone follows a structure; I mean, if you look at the human body, we are a structure.  The bridge I come over to go home (when I decide to leave my dorm) is a structure.  Everything is a structure.  Even your imagination has some structure to it; first you envision a setting, then you see a character, then you see something happening (the plot) and things explode that way.  There is usually a distinct method of devising an idea.  For a blogger, we go out, we read articles all day, and if something catches our interest, we spin it in our own way.  I do the same thing and the human body does the same thing as it develops: organelles (mitochondria, plasma membrane, etc), tissues, organs (heart, liver, lung), and organ sysytem (although this is disputed).   

So, because I follow a structure of posting every day, does that make me a reporter?  No, because I offer my opinion consistently.  Here I am offering my opinion on something that I found elsewhere.  I went out, found an article, and decided to contradict it.  Now, Glen brings up something that I want to use to shorten the differences between reporters and musers and that is the mention of TechCrunch.  I was reading the latest article at TechCrunch (here) and I see a lot of interpretation.  Doesn’t that go against the reporter method of providing information?  Whenever I think of a reporter, I think of someone who just gives the information and rather than giving their opinions, educates you enough so you can form your own opinion.  Perhaps I am wrong in that sense, but that’s how I have always interpreted the meaning. 

Are we all really that different?  Is the girl sitting next to me biologically different than I am?  Other than the fact anatomically speaking, she has some organs I do not (even though males are actually females for the beginning months of development), we are extremely similar.  Whether you follow the 99.9% or the 99.5% belief on DNA, we are all extremely similar.  So, that brings me to my last point…Are there two types of bloggers?  Perhaps.  Perhaps there are those that are really factual based and then there are those that are extremely opinion based, but I’ve never come across a blogger (a regular blogger) that has not, in some shape or form, provided an opinion.  So, maybe if I create a new type of blogger, it’ll be a Muse Driven Reporter.  In my opinion, that’s what we all are.  We are reporters driven by a passion for that particular subject.  Are we different?  Not that much.

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It’s that time again where I go around and post some random linkings to different articles and things that were rather interesting. This week is the first week that I am going to post a link to a contest. As time goes on, I may make a separate section particularly for contests (so that I can throw stuff back out there for my readers), but for right now, I only have one contest. But, there are also some articles listed here that are interesting and I recommend reading. If you have written an article and want to be linked to next week, please feel free to drop me an e-mail at jacob @ dormearning . com. Thanks a lot!

Over at It’s Write Now, they are offering an iPod Nano, the Video one. While the contest does not end for an incredibly long time, this is an awesome idea for them and it is a really great way to get links to their site. Head on over and try and enter in the contest to win a free iPod Nano.

Tay over at SuperBloggingTips.com talks about the importance of writing for the newbies. I am a firm believer about this. When I write on this blog, I try to keep things as simple as possible. I do sometimes go a bit technical, but I try to do what I can to really focus on the simple things. If someone can take my ideas, a newbie to the web, and make money from it, that’s awesome.

George over at CanIMakeBigMoneyOnline.com talks about what you can do if you are in a bind with your blog and time is hard to find. These are some awesome ideas and I really have to admit that I should do some of them myself. I really like the “A Month in Review Post” because it really is a great way to get new readers to your older content. I really should do this myself and I may try it out in the random linkings category.

These are just three of the numerous articles that I have read this week that are really quite enjoyable. I don’t mind linking to any site so long as the article/contest is awesome and these are some samples. Like I said in the beginning of the paragraph, if you have written an article or have a contest going that you want me to mention on this blog, just drop me an e-mail at: jacob @ dormearning.com. Just like that, you may just get mentioned. Thanks a lot everyone!

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