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Paul Bradshaw
5 stages of a blogger’s life

September 26th, 2008 by Paul Bradshaw

Hope you enjoy this. Concept by Paul Bradshaw, drawings by the wonderful Alex Hughes:

1st stage of blogging: play

1st stage of blogging: play

2nd stage of blogging: feedback

2nd stage of blogging: feedback

3rd stage of blogging: community

3rd stage of blogging: community

4th stage of blogging: fame

4th stage of blogging: fame

5th stage of blogging: exhaustion/death

5th stage of blogging: exhaustion/death

Here are some Twitter avatar-size versions too:

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79 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Louise Bolotin

    Briliant! Thanks for brightening up my Friday morning.

  2. Sarah Byles

    That's awesome

  3. Tracy Playle

    Wonderful. Very funny.

  4. Mariela De Marchi

    Great! I'm still laughing, thanks, friday looks much brighter :-)

  5. Gabriella

    oh! i'm the 5th :(

  6. rockzapper

    awesome!!

  7. Amit Verma

    That's really funny as well as good art…:)

  8. RedDog_UK

    Hmm… some good points there

  9. A.

    It looks you are in the second one, at least this post is.

  10. Free Adsense Website

    sooooo funny! did you create the artwork?

  11. Daniel

    Neat idea AHughes!

  12. Uncle B

    Tender spot hurting a lot? Other side too? bruises on your face and body throbbing? Is that blood running out your nose, skirt above your head in the wind, panties torn and soiled, titties swelling and turning blue by the minute, lost on the roadside, hoping not to die? Did you recognize the tail lights of the limo that threw you off? Was it the same limo that picked you up at election time, promising a good decent clean ride? Will you ever learn? Last time these guys did this to you, your babies were killed in Iraq and your retirement fund spent to do it, your taxes went up, you did not get destroyed by the weapons of mass destruction, they were never found. Poor little America. Our heart-felt prayers from Canada go out to you!

  13. Paul Bradshaw

    No, Alex Hughes did – see link at the start.

  14. Rajeev Edmonds

    Excellent illustrations. In fact they can be broken further, and can be developed into 8-10 stages in a bloggers life.

  15. Alinush

    So funny.

  16. Chadrack

    Hey, you just put some life into me! I hope not to end like that. My dream is to make it big with me blog. I will ever remember this post!

  17. Denisa

    Stages 3 and 4 are still nice. Hope I don't get to stage 5 too soon. :D

  18. Dwayne from Probably

    I'm currently between 2 and 3. My blog is only like a week and two days old or so (at this time of posting), and I've hit around 3,500 unique visitors already. I just can't wait to get to Stage 5, it looks fun, getting to hover above your keyboard like that.

  19. Attilio Viscido

    huahuahuahu to cool !!

  20. Ashok

    wow, nice images, superb

  21. niasdasd

    hurr hurr

  22. asdasf

    hurrr hurr hurrr

  23. sampat

    i am beginner. i am also feeling something like this

  24. Tara

    What about if you get to 4 and become so rich and famous that you can pay some minion to write your blog for you while you sail off into the sunset? Cause that's possible right? I'm kinda banking on that being possible . . .

  25. RT

    I think I have been stuck on Stage 1 forever.. struggling about what to write about :o (

  26. baldie

    wow, if fame is that hard and leads to step 5, I am better of between step 1 and 2 where I am at the moment! :) Funny stuff though!

  27. tharavadi

    ha ha good one ;)

  28. Silversnail72

    I stand guilty !!!

  29. LOL! Just started blogging…is this what I have to look forward to? Guess it won’t be funny to me for long :-)

  30. Interesting.. I can’t recall ever experiencing any of these problems. :) Not to shabby. You have to extend this, there are more stages that need to be depicted. WE WANT MORE! :)

    -Mig

  31. I just had my first experience of stage 2 and I loved it! I got really lucky and apparently was among the first who saw the shoe-throwing incident. One quick post, and the last two days have seen a huge amount of hits and comments (for me). I answered all comments that invited discussion.

    Now the hits have fallen back down to my original low level. This experience will keep me going for another two months.

    I’ve got a question, though. As in “real life”, not just any community will do. With the huge amount of bloggers out there, how do you locate the community you will fit in?

  32. i am in fourth stage.thanks to tell what happen next……may be something else..i am happy

  33. Ga..ga..ga… it’s so hilarious and definitely true… I think I am quite safe since I am in stage two now but still hoping to get to stage 4.. :lol:

  34. Excellent! Very true… I’m just moving on to stage two

  35. Great points, I think I am floating between level 3 and 4… lost in the transition!

    Thanks!

  36. Great! I’m still laughing, thanks, friday looks much brighter :)

  37. Thanks a lot! I am just planning to add a blog in addition to our buy to let mortgage forum.

  38. i am blogging for past two years. i am in 2nd stage….

  39. Hi,
    Great post! I am moving into the 2nd stage

  40. Very funny!

  41. haha thats funny.
    Also the Pulling your hair out stage.
    But that stage kinda lasts right through all the other stages aswell.
    Well done.

  42. that’s very true ! thank you :)

  43. I found my former self in this toon. Currently I rest at stage five, but my suspicion is this evolution will degrade to step one once again – I jut cannot get rid of blogging fever :(

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