twitterLast night I tweeted the following:

Bloggers love Twitter b/c they aren't afraid of blogging in it, but they are afraid to blog on a blog. I'll explain tomrw.

Let me know explain what I meant...

Back in the day, when blogging was blogging, bloggers (for the most part) wrote as longer Twitter messages. Most first generation bloggers didn't proof read their blog posts, they didn't care about spelling mistakes or grammar mistakes, they were carefree about the blog posts.

A blog was a personal place to write what is going on in your head. It didn't have to be about your personal life, but it could have been. You could have started a blog to keep track of your SEO notes, like I did at the Search Engine Roundtable. You wrote and did it without worry or care.

At some points, blogs turned more into real media (although real media would argue that). Professional journalists started blogging and they even created blogs on their main sites. It happened with the Wall Street Journal and even happened to Search Engine Watch (i.e. www.searchenginewatch.com versus blog.searchenginewatch.com).

Danny Sullivan is a trained journalist. I did okay in English classes in high school. I think I took one or two college classes in the English department in business school, but nothing on Journalism. The last thing I thought I would be well-known for (at least in my niche) is for writing. But yet that is what I do for a few hours each day, I write. I don't write like a Journalist - just read my posts versus Danny's - you cannot compare. Danny's words basically rhyme, I just write the bland old facts and leave it at that. I also write like I talk, it is basically like a conversation from me to you - so it comes off a bit weird reading it, but also a bit personal.

At some point, when blogs became more part of the media, bloggers began to become more official and structured. They started creating media calendars and creating blogger budgets. Don't get me wrong, I am to blame also.

Blogs are now held to a higher authority. People expect more. But should they? I miss the old days of blogging, which were more care free.

That is where Twitter comes in. Bloggers who are stuck feeling they cannot make mistakes in their blog posts come to Twitter are rant all day. Twitter has so much quality blogger material, that could be on blogs but is not, due to how blogging has changed.

Can we set our blogs free again? I do miss the old days of blogging.