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title: 15th birthday, 3rd year blogging
author: Mingjie Jiang
date: 2017-06-06T04:00:00+00:00
tags:
  - life
  - special
shortLink: 'links.mingjie.info/15thb559c0'
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  <p>
    I&#8217;m fifteen!
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  <p>
    I renewed my domain <a href="http://mingjie.info">mingjie.info</a> for another year a couple days ago, which marked the start of my third year blogging. My platforms changed: I started with Tumblr, soon turned to self-built WordPress, then Ghost (on Node.js), back to WordPress, and eventually, about a month ago, I think my skills are enough to start blogging with Jekyll. What I have been blogging also changed: I started with random things, like school life, daily, etc., and then turned to the cultural differences between China and the United States since I moved. Soon I ran out of topics, so I started a couple months blogging about programming and technology targeted materials, and eventually, I&#8217;m here blogging mostly about social issues, or politics.
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  <p>
    Some of you said I am complaining about everything I can possibly complain about. That is possibly true because the point of my blog is to get people thinking instead of blindly agree with things.
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  <p>
    I don&#8217;t update very often because instead of sending out tons of articles and get some more ad revenue, I tried to keep my blog clean and worth reading.
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  <p>
    I&#8217;ve had time working with the media. But I didn&#8217;t like it, since on the media your ideas are exposed to the general public and, as most of you know, I can&#8217;t really handle criticism well. And sometimes there are just people trying to attack you on whatever you are writing, and that hurts authors a lot. By writing on my own blog, I still get money via ad revenue, subscription, and donation, and I can "choose" audiences &#8211; those who are not interested in your article won&#8217;t even click in here, and I have some degree of control over my own blog, for example, comments.
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  <p>
    Most bloggers and media editors I know try to keep their articles unbiased, as they think it will be fair to most audiences and thus will get fewer critics. But so far that hasn&#8217;t worked, because the fact is that there will always be people that hate whatever you are writing, and they will find a way to attack you no matter what.
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  <p>
    So what&#8217;s the point of keeping things unbiased? Why not go on one side of the story, and try to explain the story well from that perspective?
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  <p>
    I know I sound drunk writing this&#8230; I&#8217;m expecting people to get used to my drunk writing style.
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  <p>
    Thanks to all those who sent their wishes!
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