Who Do You Blog For?

I'm new to all this blogging stuff -- I'm barely learning. I just recently started blogging for myself but I have no idea of how to put a comment thing on my site. (I tried but it would never work so I removed it.)

edit to add: I did it. I finally have a real blog on my site. It used to be me updating a webpage but now I linked it to a blog page.

please come take a peek/there's nothing serious in there. just simple stuff: http://midnightwritings.blogspot.com/

I'm new to blogging, too, and I'm not yet sure why I'm doing it. I haven't given out the url anywhere, so the only people who know about it are people whose blogs I've commented in. And that's the way I want it, at least for now. I get enough "exposure" and commentary elsewhere. I'd like the blog to feel like a haven of sorts, one that only a small circle of friends know about. But I still have no real idea what I want to say there.

I do not have a blog. Whatever one's reason for having/maintaining one, it concerns me that it appears either precious time or money generating ideas or both are provided the blog, detracting from revenue generation.


Just my 0.2 cents.

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I would love to blog--but I'm afraid of getting into too much me, me, me, and I, I, I, and boring me.

Somehow I find my life rather dull as of late, and can't imagine sharing it with others. I guess I could blog about my BIC and the moments of inspiration?



All kidding aside, would you approach the blog much like a daily diary?

Edit for P.S. I have visited the "squashed gopher's" blog site a few times, and find it (the gopher) to be a very good and informative writer, considering it is smashed flat into a tapestry panel.

Well, I don't feel bad about not having one now. Jenna said it just right.

'Why do I want to do this?' Until I answer that, I probably won't get one. I may do it after NaNo is finished. 50,000 words is kind of big for SYW.

I've bookmarked some of my AW friends blogs (as I found them) in a separate sub-folder under 'writing links'. That link already rolls off the screen and out the front door to the street when I open it. I wish I could ride it. If I added everyone's, I could hop on it and take it all the way to town.

I usually blog for the few family members and friends who stop by and read it. Usually, I post news snippets with commentary and funny things I've run across in my day.

I find that the more you comment on others' blogs, the more likely you'll have people visit yours... I'm sure it'll be a neat and useful tool to discuss things with readers if I ever get published. I really like John Scalzi's blog, which I've been reading day-to-day. He's usually entertaining.

I guess I troll blogs for news and commentaries. I follow up on the news because it's sometimes inaccurate, but it's a starting point.

I think blogging is an interesting experience. I don't blog all the time, but when I do, I want to say something interesting and not just "I ate an egg today and it was good." I also like to see if anyone would comment on anything, because I really hate feeling like I'm talking to myself. Sometimes I stop blogging because I don't think people are interested, and I'd rather just keep my thoughts to myself, then. But when I see that people are reading and commenting on it, I feel more motivated.

I like blogging because it's like a snapshot of my brain at various times. I could read something I wrote a year ago and go, "Wow, what was I thinking." So that's good. I use my website mostly for promotion/marketing, etc. But if you really want to know how I think -- sometimes, not all the times -- the blog is a better place.

I just blog for the heck of it. It's a place I can put some stuff up on a big eletronic board and see what happens. Mostly it's for myself. But I did tell a select few of friends and family who do read it. Now that I posted on AW, others may read it. If anyone gets anything out of it, cool. If not, no biggie. I'll still write it.

I did it! I have a blog. Not ready to unveil it yet--but it is DAWNO'S fault that I have one. So anything that you have complaints about, please take it up with her. Just to refresh your memory, it's Dawno's fault for everything since 1959 I believe it was. Well, it's just her fault. I could do a blog on all the things that are Dawno's fault. Don't believe me? Just ask her. Dawno, answer your PM.


I guess I blog for Dawno.

I started blogging in 2002 for professional reasons--I work in Instructional Technology, and software development; blogs are fabulous in terms of teaching, and in terms of project management/development.

I have several blogs (Macallister, stop snickering!) and spend a fair amount of time testing blogging systems and clients, and teaching people How to Blog.

Dawno said:

Oooh goodie - a new project for Dawno - hunting down author blogs.

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Authors Blogs, Published, and Writers Blog Alliance has lists for you to look through.

MacAllister said:

In fact, Lisa has blogs she's apparently forgotten she ever started...*snrrk* *snort*

Now they just sit quietly, a monument to...errr...

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Ha!

I know exactly where the tombs are. I beta tested for, . . . well, pretty much everybody. Sometimes even I run out of things to say <g>

Dawno said:

Do you, perchance, have the "Teaching People How to Blog" on a blog? or at least a website? I'd love to read it.

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Some of it it's a book from O'Reilly, and the rest of it is scattered. I probably should post it, now that I think of it.

I'll add that to the list . . .

I blog for readers. I love readers, I love to be read, I need to be read. I'm a needy writer who needs to be read by readers.

Actually, I'm not sure who I blog for. Most of my commenters are writers, but I doubt I would have started blogging just to talk to other writers. I could do that here.

Readers, family, co-workers, people who know me from the paper, or from my other published works, don't comment often, so I'm not sure if they are even passing through, but they are much more my original target audience.

I'm blogging because I gave in to a sudden impulse and because it's techno-dweeb-friendly. Sorta. I still need to figure out a lot of stuff. And yep, more readers is hardly ever a bad thing.

Reposting since it didn't make it through the Great Migration:

My first blog was one I started on behalf of the regulars on another message board. Some of the guys on ModernMusclecars.net wanted somewhat more regular updates on my Dodge Dart project car. Since I normally don't start many threads about my own cars unless I get something running, I thought it was best to start a blog. That is how Mad Scientist Matt's Lair came to be. I expect it mostly to be read by people on a couple car forums I frequent, but if it becomes popular enough it may be useful for promoting car books.

Not long after I started that, my fiancee suggested a blog about local restaurants. After all, big cities have their online guides, why not ours? So I started ccdining.blogspot.com as a guide to restaurants in Covington, Conyers, and the rest of Newton and Rockdale Counties in Georgia. So, this blog is for anyone who might be visiting or living in the area - and, of course, for Kelly.

I put a Sitemeter on my first blog, and might get something for CCDining too. Right now it doesn't look like I have very many readers, but I intend to write it as though it may one day reach a wider audience.

Blogging = Sanity

I blog because it maintains my sanity. I had a baby last year and I became somewhat depressed, I didn't know what to do with myself or anything around me.

I visit a board on world royalty, asking if anyone knew of any jobs related to writing about royalty, since it's a subject which I really love and enjoy. The moderator suggested starting my own blog. So I did - http://www.marilynsroyalblog.blogspot.com

I've tried other types of blogs, on different subject matter - one blog was about motherhood and trying to find ways to cope. I felt very alone and isolated and I chronicaled my search for other mothers in the neighborhood, how some seemed to be unpenetrable cliques, my desire to throttle parents who brag about their babies incessantly (my 2 month old said his first word!) then it started to become a forum to vent about my mother-in-law..so I have given up on it.

The royalty blog gave me a sense of purpose in my life, I don't want to sound cheesy by saying that (cue sentimental moment tv show music), but it really did. I don't feel right unless I'm writing something about royalty. I'm now taking it a lot more seriously and I'm trying to find ways to do this (writing - not blogging) for a living. If I can make money at blogging I won't complain, as long as it's about royalty.

I do a variation of the lit blog thing with Ruining My Eyes-- I talk about what I'm reading, observations, and whenever possible, book suggestions (yeah, it's the librarian in me, I guess). I'd like to think that's what makes my blog different, that not only to I talk about a book, but usually I try and tie it to one or two other titles that may interest readers.

Since I don't have many readers, or commenters, yet, I guess I'd have to say it's more for me than anyone else at this point. I just want to take it and see how far I can go with it.