I have a “blog” which doesn’t use blogging software, embedded in my larger community site which I maintain for the working Australian Shepherd community. It’s a series of essays that mostly have to do with, surprise, working livestock with dogs. I craft my essays over a week to a month before I post them. If blogs aren’t thoughtful and well-written and fresh and on a topic that interests me, I don’t read them.
I don’t read blogs.
I started one about four months ago when I started to declutter my house. I have no audience, but I am getting a psychological benefit anyway from taking photos and documenting my various issues with the items I’m getting rid of. Also, I have a visual record of the progress I am making.
No. There are SO many movie blogs out there already, and they’re all run by people who are better writers, have more interesting things to say, and aren’t anywhere near as lazy as I am. I just keep track of the movies I see on Twitter so I can have a full list at the end of the year, and that’s good enough for me. Besides, I don’t read anyone else’s movie blog (I’m wary of spoilers) so why would I expect anyone to read mine?
I really enjoy writing my blog, even though I don’t have regular readers outside of family and a few friends. It doesn’t have a theme - I just write about home improvement projects, food, adventures, and my work. I figure it’s good writing practice for the novel I’ll eventually write.
It’s here if anyone is interested.
I used to have a livejournal but fell away from that as twitter and Facebook and google plus came into play.
I have several Tumblrs which I post to every day, each with a different theme: turtles, weird buildings, future sex, environment, technology in the arts, artistic, and math/metaphysics/catch all. I’m probably going to start a tv/movie/books one.
I recently installed Wordpress on my website but haven’t taught myself how to use it yet. I’d like to be able to have one central blog and use tags to have sub blogs with their own banners, but I’m not sure if that’s possible.
Yes, it is permissible to provide a link to your blog; members can use their sigs for said links. You may also provide a link to the blog in threads like this.
You may not start threads or otherwise post for the sole purpose of driving traffic to your blog, generally by linking to a particular post.
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I have a blog that I post to occasionally – two or three times a month. There’s no particular theme, it’s just stuff that I’ve written that doesn’t work for any of my paying clients, or similarly miscellaneous musings: knitting, cooking [oddly enough, I don’t think of myself as a cook], movie trivia, etc.
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ETA: I’m a freelance writer/editor, so I started a WordPress page to post links to my writings, etc., and added a blog page to that, mostly because people expect writer/editors to have a blog associated with their webpages.
I’m not going to post a link because it’s in my real name, which isn’t a huge secret around here, but is also not something I want to put out there willy-nilly, given my lack of popularity in some circles.
Nope. Nothing I do or say is interesting enough for me to want to have my own page for it.
I blog. Threatening Love Letters. I currently owe readers one short story and May and June’s song recs, but I’ll get around to it, promise. I’m a lot more faithful to Twitter, adding content regularly-wise, but I’ve kept this blog for the longest ever, so I’ll probably keep updating occasionally.
Thanks!
Thanks everyone. It has been really interesting to read the different approaches those of you that have blogs have taken. I can’t imagine starting a blog that I kept private. If I did I would never post anything. I need to know someone if looking at it to keep me active.
My blog is only a couple of weeks old and my (short term) goal is to post every day for 30 days. Then I will assess how much interest people have in it. I’ll probably post much less frequently after that.
I decided to start a blog basically because I didn’t have anyone to talk to about photographing and keeping interesting creepy crawlies. My work is very busy and I have 2 young boys, so I don’t have much of a social life anymore! Ha!
About a month ago my 8 year old came to me and asked if he could have a pet scorpion. I started researching what kind to get and hot to keep it…and this project sort of spun out of that.
If you are interested my blog is here: www.macrocritters.wordpress.com. Like I said, I am really new to this, so any comments and suggestions would be welcome.
I have a blog to practice writing: turns out my skills are rusty, just like my memory. so I don’t ask anyone to read it. one person follows it but I have no idea why.
mostly I posted so I would get e-mail updates to this thread.
I used to post a few times a month. Now it’s a few times a year.
My problem is I’m not as entertaining in written form as I thought I’d be. I have a sense of humour that comes through, but it’s weak and intermittent. Some people can just be hilariously fun every which way no matter what they talk about, but I’m not one of them, so I don’t have much motivation to write anymore, and what I do is usually dull and unimpressive.
Though I did do a post about the locations of the Safety Dance video, which is my most popular blog entry by far.
I would have voted, “No, and I have no desire to start one”.
^This pretty much sums up my experience with blogs.
I’ve been blogging (Here’s your link) since before I called it blogging. I started an online journal in 1999 and have kept it more or less ever since, although when I moved to Wordpress in 2010 I didn’t bother porting over all the old entries.
These days I post whenever something strikes my fancy. It keeps my writing skills sharp and it occasionally seems to entertain people.
I’m a photographer and I run a blog for photography, including my images, reviews and photographic techniques. I get a fair amount of traffic for a relatively new blog. (about 300-400 uniques a day).
I’ve had a bunch of them over the years. I run Unsolicited Advice right now, and I try to post on a regular basis. Topics are whatever completely random thing has caught my attention that week. It’s difficult to judge how many people read the thing, but I get comments from both regulars and people I’ve never seen before, so it’s anyone’s guess.
Nice to meet another Olympus user! Nice site you have…but when I tried to “follow” it wouldn’t work…
You have great stuff on your blog! Thanks for the link!