I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.
I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.
One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.
You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.
I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There's nothing online that I'm not aware of.
Value the quality of your articles over the number of articles you write. I know a lot of bloggers focus on writing as many articles as possible, but I've realized over the years that you cannot sacrifice quality if you wish to build a loyal following on your blog.
We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code.
In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.
The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.
My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because it can start to feed into your writing time. When you are writing a book, it's such a long journey where the payoff is way at the end, sometimes years away. The payoff of the blog post is today. You get the reinforcement, comments or "likes" immediately. It's appealing. You have to be patient with the book.
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.
I blog; therefore, I am.
The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful.
Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.
To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience.
Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.
