On Blogging > conclusion
Submitted by Trigear on Mon, 01/29/2007 - 5:49pm.
Over the last few days I've been exploring the hows and whys of blogging. For me, blogging is all about focusing my thoughts and expressing myself. I do it as much for myself as I do for my readers and friends. I realize that not every blogger works that way, and I've tried to cover as many different perspectives as possible, without turning this into a dissertation or doctorate thesis. Hopefully -- and here's where feedback is appreciated -- I've succeeded in entertaining and enlightening you in the process of succeeding in what I set out to do. Thank you for taking the time to follow along.
The rest of this post will be a listing of the various blogs that I've linked to throughout my On Blogging piece, in case you missed any.
- Don to Earth
- Blogging 101
- The Baseball Collector
- Nipperknits
- love me, love my caribou
- An Abundance of Lisa
- Peony Knits
- MeBeth Rambles
- Streets and YOs
- Gidget Casts On
- Chizumatic
- Kotaku
- Commented Out
- Twenty Sided
- The Official Site of Benjamin J Heckendorn
- Dogster
- Typographica
- Ragnar Tornquist.com
- Breaking into Journalism
- Official Google Blog
- Hands off the Internet
- Save the Internet
- JohnKerry.com Blog
- LifeStudent
- Burners Without Borders Katrina Blog
- Grandpa Caleb
Re: On Blogging > conclusion
Being new to the whole blogging thing, I never really put much thought into a general audience; truthfully, the only audience my anime weblog was actually aimed for was myself.
I was a fairly prolific review on AnimeNFO.com for nearly a year when life took a serious hit on watching and reviewing anime. I just didn't have as much time to dedicate to watching anime as I did, so it took longer to watch series, and by the time I finish them, I find that I would lose details from early episodes, so I'd have to go back and rewatch them when reviewing. It got a bit too time-consuming and often, I just didn't feel like writing a review after a series.
So I decided to give anime blogging a try. It also gave me a chance to try out site software systems (I was actually using Joomla before I switched to Drupal), play around with site features such as Google AdSense and Google Analytics, and mess with PHP, HTML, and CSS for the site design. In addition, blogging allowed me flexibility in what I would write that reviewing wouldn't; I can actually just post about things occuring in the anime world that interested me, post reminders for myself, or really dig into an anime that would be too much of a spoiler on a proper review. Basically, like you, "blogging is all about focusing my thoughts and expressing myself".
Thanks for the articles; they were an interesting read.
-Nick
Re: On Blogging > conclusion
Thanks. It was helpful to read why and how people blog. I'm thinking about starting my own blog, and this gave me some ideas.