In My Mind’s Zen Garden

Any blogs, journals or online dairies that have been inactive for quite a while will have to be deleted from the RBJ Directory. Volunteers have been helping me flag those sites that match the following criteria:

Efforts To Keep A Faithful Directory

I am pretty dedicated to making the RBJ Directory a valid and “live” directory, and the many abandoned blogs and journals need to be eliminated in order to keep the directory alive.

It’s apparent that many bloggers jumped on the bandwagon a few years back because blogging and online journaling was the rage. But, many of those bloggers have either lost interest or simply aren’t dedicated bloggers like the rest of us.

RBJ has suffered a great loss because of this phenomenon, especially as the 2.0 social networking sites make it easy for interaction. But the problem with social networking is that there is a loss of quality writing. And we at RBJ are dedicated into fostering quality blogs with great content. So, hopefully, the more dedicated writers will stick around and the RBJ directory will dwindle down to the quality writers who are willing to stick it out in the long run.

New Membership Through Recommendation

We at Rice Bowl Journals will stop the registration process, and only accept those serious bloggers and writers who are willing to dedicate the time to their blogs and journals. There’ll no longer be a registration process, actually. But if someone is serious about joining RBJ then he/she can contact me about becoming a member of the directory. Only serious writers with quality content will be considered. This is the exact opposite from social networking sites that are willing to accept anyone and everyone.

Anyone can contact me to recommend a blog or journal as well. And we can invite those blogs and journals that can be a worthy addition to the RBJ Directory.