Mark Cantrell's Blog - Posts Tagged "content"
The Number Of The King
In the republic of the word
ONE of these days I’m going to start blogging.
Hang on, though, isn’t this a blog? Well, no. Sure, it’s a blogging platform, but I started this site as a place to post my writing work rather than to actually blog per se.
That’s why it’s filled with poems and fiction, newsy bits (the ones that catch my eye – a hangover from a writers’ newsletter I once edited, but that’s another blog), comment pieces and essays, not to mention the odd feature article, and plenty of stuff plugging my writing elsewhere.
Since I am a writer and a journalist, the site – the blog – reflects that and though it might tend towards the literary, it also has a tendency to reflect the themes and issues that interest me: political issues, human interest, social affairs, a range of stuff, old and new, and frankly it does sometimes become my ‘pulpit’. So, what’s the point of having a blog if I can’t pontificate every so often?
Content is supposed to be king. We hear the mantra invoked like some profound snippet of ancient wisdom and most of the sages who proclaim ‘content is king’ tend to leave it that. Well, in my experience they do anyway. Thing is, all too often, this monarch is naked – if not actually dead.
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ONE of these days I’m going to start blogging.
Hang on, though, isn’t this a blog? Well, no. Sure, it’s a blogging platform, but I started this site as a place to post my writing work rather than to actually blog per se.
That’s why it’s filled with poems and fiction, newsy bits (the ones that catch my eye – a hangover from a writers’ newsletter I once edited, but that’s another blog), comment pieces and essays, not to mention the odd feature article, and plenty of stuff plugging my writing elsewhere.
Since I am a writer and a journalist, the site – the blog – reflects that and though it might tend towards the literary, it also has a tendency to reflect the themes and issues that interest me: political issues, human interest, social affairs, a range of stuff, old and new, and frankly it does sometimes become my ‘pulpit’. So, what’s the point of having a blog if I can’t pontificate every so often?
Content is supposed to be king. We hear the mantra invoked like some profound snippet of ancient wisdom and most of the sages who proclaim ‘content is king’ tend to leave it that. Well, in my experience they do anyway. Thing is, all too often, this monarch is naked – if not actually dead.
Read the rest on The Word On The Wall
