Humour Blogs are very rare ! WHY ???!!??

Point 1 : I too have a humour blog.

And I do not feel there are very few humor blogs out there. If you find out fakingnews, flyyoufools etc. are hilarious. However number is certainly lower as compared to tech and photo blogs. Reason is obvious, there are not too many humorous people around, and also it is not easy to write in a domain if you are not expert. You can learn about technology, you can read about photography, you can follow politics, but noone can teach you to be humorous.

I agree with you completely.

Meh?

Well Monica, when you say you agree completely, I am always looking for hidden sarcasm . I hope there is none here 

haah!I mean is dis wt I am taken to be- sarcastic? You made a valid point and I cud not agree more...so atleast for this time chill out and enjoy my genuine sans sarcasm support :D

I wonder what was the need to write Point 1 when there is no point no 2. 

That was a trick, so that you read till the end. And you fell for it 

Agree with you. There is not many humor blogs around. Admittedly it takes some talent and creativity to run a humor blog. It seems there is nothing humoros about writing a humor blog.

Oh No! Seems to be another joke. :-) 

... But I am unable to understand what the trick hidden in it is. The reply was not too lengthy for me to skip.

There are very FEW humour sites ! Trust me ! 

My journey started with cracked.com and thats how i startd my own site ! 

And it's really tough trying to be humorous ! Also tech blogs/politics blogs get more views ! So ppl who blog for money prefer that !  

My blog can be counted as humorous.I inject humour in everything :P

Sure you do. The blend of humour and sarcasm with some amazing photoshop skills makes a really good blog

Thank you Abhishek :) U noticed my PS skills...wait lemme pat my back :D I used to miss my design & Graphic class in college ;)

Have just gone through your blog. You seem to laugh at everyone and anyone.

There is an approach to things.If you approach them seriously you end up in Appolo for a heart surgery.I by default see the lighter side of things and picking up very basic facts and highlighting them with humour is what makes me happy and fortunately those happy who visit it :D

well said !

That is a very good approach in life. Your face (in the profile image) reflects it. 

Haha ! I've read thru ur blog a couple of times ! Found it interesting , to say the least ! :)

And ohh , it's time for some shameless publicity ! :P

Pls chk out my most read article :D

http://badabingbadabambadaboom.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/un-written-rules-in-indian-engineering-universities/

Humour is serious business . Its not everybodys' cup of tea. But I think there are some really good humour blogs here. click on 'humour' category on the homepage. Faking news is one of the best :)

Yeah , true .

I know a lot of funny people ! But somehow ppl don't write abt funny stuff ! It's like ppl lose their funny bone as they grow old ! :\

And oh , pls chk out my most read article ! :P

http://badabingbadabambadaboom.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/un-written-rules-in-indian-engineering-universities/

I have come accross a number of humour blogs with just a couple of posts copied from somewhere else. :-)

Maintaining a technology blog is simpler because you can do research (copying from a number of sources, as stated by someone on the forum) and come up with your own post which no one dares to call plagarised content. On the other hand, humour posts have to be unique. Rephrasing a joke does not make it your own.

+1 to what you said. Humor is serious business

>__< eh? Then what you call tech blogs who do actual RnD or get exclusive information?

I'll never deem research as "copying from a number of sources". That's just plain lame and wrong in all angles. We all know how to copy paste and making active into passive and using "hifi" or shortforms since school. Its even worse when such people don't have the basic courtesy of putting up a source link.

I was referring to this sentence: "Copying from a single source is called Plagiarism but Copying from multiple sources is called Research" here. Please note that I am only quoting it which does not necessarily mean that I support it.

And, I wasn't referring to all the tech blogs. I said that maintaining a tech blog is simple but at the same time, I did not say that all tech blogs fall under this category. Yes, a few tech blogs do come up with original content not found elsewhere on the net but still everyone do not fall under this category.

There are tooooo many tech blogs ! Am bored of 'em ! :P

Humorous blog requires some effort , yes , but trust me , when you can make ppl laugh , there is no better feeling ! :)

And , yeah , you can curse me all you want , but pl do it after u've read this : Phttp://badabingbadabambadaboom.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/un-written-rules-in-indian-engineering-universities/ 

I tried to base my blog on humour but only I find it funny 

y dont you change the name of your blog to funny-love ???

It will do a world of good to people who at 3AM is Searching "I love to ****" ... and are landing  up at your blog ...

They are definitely in a mood to fun then but may not be game for "funny" content :P

chemical locha remains one of my favourites.

That happens to me to bro ! :\

What to do ! Keep writing . hopefulu someone will find it funny someday ! Just dont't give up ! 

And yea , publicity time :P

Chk this out ! :D

http://badabingbadabambadaboom.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/un-written-rules-in-indian-engineering-universities/

I personally feel that in one way its good that humour blogs are few . It makes them Exclusive ...

Bloggers are good human beings at the end of the day. They know their limitations and prefer playing according to their strengths...

It is not possible for anyone and everyone to become Pagal Patrakar or Great-bong just like every spin bowler cannot become Paul Adams.

Ask yourself truthfully ... will you be able to take it if one fine day www.dustintheeye.blogspot.com starts acting funny???

Nice publicity for your blog dude ! :P

And yea , i completely agree with what you say , good that there are less humour blogs , thats how ppl like me can bcum popular ! :P

And oh , chk this out ( Pls pls pls :P )

http://badabingbadabambadaboom.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/un-written-rules-in-indian-engineering-universities/

Can anyone tell me how can I unsuscribe to the emails I am getting for each posting on the topic.  

In the blog www.dustintheye.blogspot.com there  is no post that can help you out :(

Given the way you are posting, you should have a blog named "www.painintheass.blogspot.com". Self promotion is fine, but there is a way to do it.There should be a subtelty and grace about it. If you overdo self promotion it actually goes against you. Go and read some stuff about marketing 

Yes! The first interesting thread on Indiblogger! Maybe there's hope after all. (Only joking, of course.) I was asking myself the exact same questions you were, and the best answer I could come up with was: Most people are serious. (Sorry, I didn't want to go down the 'masses are stupid' road. )

I agree with you about photoblogs and techblogs being popular and that's easy to explain, right? You need only about ten seconds to see a photo and decide whether you like it or not (OK, maybe even three) and when you're reading techblogs in office, you can always tell your boss that hey, you're actually working. (As opposed to getting caught reading a 'personal' post about what brand of toothpaste the poster prefers, with attached pictures of the said person's teeth embedded for free.)

I have a blog where I put up occasional silly stuff and/or comic strips, but it's only my closest friends (they're probably the only ones who know what's funny in what I write ) who probably read them. (Not that I'm complaining, because you know, if you don't get the joke, that makes the joke funnier, because the joke is now on you.)

Unless you resort to the most pathetic self-promotion tactics like www.dustintheeye.blogspot.com does in your initial days , only "close-friends" will end up reading what you write.

Really?  If the point of shameless self-promotion is to get more likeminded people to visit your blog and get a healthy interaction going between that little 'ideasharing' community you've just formed, that would be all right, but since humour bloggers are rare (on this site at any rate), that wouldn't work, I think. Or of course if your objective is simply to make money through page views (or clicks or whatever), then anything goes, I guess. 

And I see what you did there by sneaking in www.dustintheeye.blogspot.com. Oho, did I just shamelessly self-promote (or him-promote, or whatever) on your behalf? 

(http://thelightofcanopus.blogspot.com) (Profound cosmic insight: shameless self-promotion is like drinking. You've either done it, or you haven't. Nothing in between. There's no going back now, is there?  )

You comment about starting off with cracked reminds me: I hate that site. Well, most of the time. If there is one, just one form of humour (OK, apart from toilet humour) I totally dislike, it is a 1000 word expletive filled rant that tries to pass off as humour. Even more so if it's broken into 20 easily digestible bullet points for mass consumption. Having said that, some of the posts are genuinely witty, but they're far and few between these days.  And the cracked comments section must be the second most retarded place on the Internet. (After the youtube comments section, duh.) I'm scarred for life. British humour rules! Stephen Fry! Hugh Laurie!

Hugh Laurie = My HERO . :D

And oh , cracked.com is pretty awesome ! It's not oly humour , also very informative stuf ! It's the way in which they present it makes it awesome ! 

You should try going thru their archive ! Some of the old articl's are pretty awesome !

And oh , my blog is not actually mine ! It's a collective effort . As of now 8 of us are writing in it . We deal with funny stuff most of the time but of late we have a lotta different topics going around ! We actualy want more ppl writing fr us . But first ppl need to read it first , so i shamelessly admit that i started this topic only to do some publicity for the blog ! :D

My blog is a humor blog too. Humor comes easily to me but I don’t joke about things that people usually joke about, like politics or social issues, because most people don’t enjoy them (mostly because they don’t understand it. I have been searching for someone who writes like me forever now. But I could never seem to find any. I have been blogging only for a month now. Though people don’t flock to see my blog like Tirupati’s Lord Venkateshwara, traffic has been decent none the less. But still the traffic is not anywhere close to awesome and I wonder if anybody wants humor at all. I couldn’t understand how a tech blog and a blog about politics can be such a hit. I mean these are the things I am planning to read my kids when they ask for a bed time stories (you only need to read a paragraph and you are off to sleep.)

Then there are the people who like your posts so much and ask you to read one of their post (posts they call humor). Sigh... When I read these posts I cant help but think that reading the entire bible in one sitting would have been more exciting than reading the 3 paragraphs they call humor.

The world is a complicated place and sometimes there seems to be no hope but there is always a ray of light that shines through the darkness and the blog Craptivate was one of those rays when I was about to quit blogging in utter frustration with the blog world. I came know about the blog because my class mate is one of the authors there. When I asked him to read my blog he loved it so much that he told me he writes about funny stuff too and showed me the site. Well all the authors there are anonymous so I felt like he told me some top secret. This is one blog that made me think not all blogs are dull and that there were other people who enjoyed humor as much as I did. I realised that all I had to do was find those people. That is how I joined IndiBlogger and people have been so kind to the amateur. I realised that my blog was that great blog that people have been searching for just like I did when I started blogging.  Of course there are people who don’t like my blog or who don’t find it funny, but there are always gothic freaks who embrace depression and shun humor. I dint have them in mind when I was writing stuff.

All this said and done lemme give you the link to my holy blog http://abhishekranjith.blogspot.com/  You will be blessed if you come and read. If you by any chance follow my blog or share the link in your website then you are guaranteed a place in heaven (Even if you are a husband/wife beater). I did a pooja to bless all my readers :D

Read my blog already!!! Otherwise I will have to claim to be the reincarnation of Sai Baba.

Abishek. The whole CRAPTIVATE crew thanks you ! :)

To every-one reading this : See , i might do unnecessary publicity for the blog. Might irritate you asking you to read it. But i jus realized one thing. 

Abhishek's comment just touched all our hearts. Don't think am gonna do anymore publicity for the blog. Go have a brownie :D

:O I dint realise I typed so much till I clicked post reply :D Sorry folks first time replying in a forum. Guess I thought I was writing another blog post :D