First Order of Madness
How do you raise a blog?
Aside from one previous foray into the blogging world whose main purpose was to learn Movable Type, I do not have any experience with writing for the masses' daily (or near-daily) consumption. I've often wondered what it's like to have a writing deadline, say for a daily newspaper column. What would I write about? Where would I get my ideas? What would be my goal?
And so, much like my first blog, the purpose of this blog is to figure something out. No, not how to use Blogger, although that will be an added bonus. Instead, I'm going to try to figure out how to produce an interesting, useful, and worthwhile piece of written work, on an at least semi-regular basis, for the world to enjoy.
What's it all about?
I am currently subscribed to about 60 RSS feeds from a wide variety of web sites and blogs. Most of these feeds have a common theme: I pay attention to them because I want to learn something. Their topics range from finance to marketing to design to wine to personal care. A few exhibit some topic crossover, but not many. So I click from feed to feed, learning how to extend the life of my razor followed by how to invest $10,000 followed by how to create customer loyalty. This works for me.
But at the same time, just reading all of these life tips (I wanted to call this blog "Life Tips," by the way, and while I was disappointed when I learned that the domain name was taken, I now consider that idea painfully boring) gives me ideas of my own on a near-daily basis. I know other things you can do to avoid household clutter! I have other ideas about how to save money when you shop! And I know there are others like myself who share my interest of wanting to learn as much as possible about how to improve their lives in all sorts of ways. How to keep it all together.
So here I am. Right now I'm just getting the blog up and running; I hope to write a "real" entry within a few days. In fact, this post was unplanned and has been completely off-the-cuff; I just needed to type something to test out the "Publish Post" button I see at the bottom of this page. I decided it would make the most sense to type something that might be worth reading, at least someday down the line, rather than "testing ... can you see me?" Because then I'd have to go back and delete that post and think of something more appropriate to write as my first entry. And that's just giving myself extra, unnecessary work, which is something I am very much against and will write about in the future.
So this has been my very first idea-in-practice when it comes to keeping it all together. I hope this project proves useful to you as well.
Aside from one previous foray into the blogging world whose main purpose was to learn Movable Type, I do not have any experience with writing for the masses' daily (or near-daily) consumption. I've often wondered what it's like to have a writing deadline, say for a daily newspaper column. What would I write about? Where would I get my ideas? What would be my goal?
And so, much like my first blog, the purpose of this blog is to figure something out. No, not how to use Blogger, although that will be an added bonus. Instead, I'm going to try to figure out how to produce an interesting, useful, and worthwhile piece of written work, on an at least semi-regular basis, for the world to enjoy.
What's it all about?
I am currently subscribed to about 60 RSS feeds from a wide variety of web sites and blogs. Most of these feeds have a common theme: I pay attention to them because I want to learn something. Their topics range from finance to marketing to design to wine to personal care. A few exhibit some topic crossover, but not many. So I click from feed to feed, learning how to extend the life of my razor followed by how to invest $10,000 followed by how to create customer loyalty. This works for me.
But at the same time, just reading all of these life tips (I wanted to call this blog "Life Tips," by the way, and while I was disappointed when I learned that the domain name was taken, I now consider that idea painfully boring) gives me ideas of my own on a near-daily basis. I know other things you can do to avoid household clutter! I have other ideas about how to save money when you shop! And I know there are others like myself who share my interest of wanting to learn as much as possible about how to improve their lives in all sorts of ways. How to keep it all together.
So here I am. Right now I'm just getting the blog up and running; I hope to write a "real" entry within a few days. In fact, this post was unplanned and has been completely off-the-cuff; I just needed to type something to test out the "Publish Post" button I see at the bottom of this page. I decided it would make the most sense to type something that might be worth reading, at least someday down the line, rather than "testing ... can you see me?" Because then I'd have to go back and delete that post and think of something more appropriate to write as my first entry. And that's just giving myself extra, unnecessary work, which is something I am very much against and will write about in the future.
So this has been my very first idea-in-practice when it comes to keeping it all together. I hope this project proves useful to you as well.
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