What’s worst than a blog which is never updated? When you decide to create a blog, even if you don’t know who your readers are and even if there are any, you have to provide content.

You can decide to tell your personnal life, but do not forget to share personnal things even details, in order to be unique and original. If you’re not a famous person, you should be very creative, funny, easy talking and open minded.

Provide videos, spend time, and try to create a little community who comes there for a typical subject.

A nice blog can highlight new trends or give a tribune for different kind of opinions, you cannot find in the classical newspaper.

Moreover you should link your website to many others, in order to be found easily on most search engines. (if you consider that a “good” blog must be read…)

Have a look at this interesting article:

http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/notablog/story/good_blog/

What does generosity really mean? Sharing whithout expecting anything but the action of giving? Is generosity always uninterested?

Yet, when we are talking about generosity on the internet, where everything is viewable, and when we are all linked by the “web”, it is another question. Especially when we have a look at the typical websites such as myspace.com, youtube.com… who all claim to be generous platforms created FOR and BY the users. Do they have a coherent business model? Can we compare those websites with the very common wikipedia.com which offers a huge amount of knowledge for free; or even with peer to peer process?

Generosity can be also found on forums where people ask questions or introduce topics and the other members help, give advices, even solutions…

Web 2.O concept is based on the idea of participation, sharing. Even if this concept is mostly a commercial one, to increase the traffic and give the users the illusion they decide, generosity is not very far away.

On youtube.com: we talk about “community”. A community is based on generosity, right?

You tube is a very good example: they use the creativity of the public, to create the content and to generate traffic on their plateform.
Furthermore, even if the fact that they have a business model is contested (because they are facing several problems : copyright; how is it possible to integrate advertising, what kind of…), we cannot deny that youtube has been sold to Google group for 1.65 billion $ !

Have a look at this article which discuss youtube’s business model:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15079910/site/newsweek/