So you start up a site, just for a laff. Then you edit it, and jigger around with the way it looks. Then you try to upload your own photo, have trouble with a hit counter, accidentally delete some crucial html and decide to quit for a day.
But you're hooked. Try telling your neighbour about blogging. Try telling your kid's best friend's mum at the school gates. Explain that you can play 'Next Blog' and surf around the world in minutes, reading intimate details of peoples lives, looking at photos of other peoples cats and picking up weird snippets of Iranian news or a cry for help from a stay at home Dad in Atlanta, Georgia.
The non-blogging community think 'Maybe I could use it to publicise my business?' PLEASE NO. Get your own website if you wanna sell stuff. Real bloggers are out there scooping awards for journalism, or getting their blog-turned-novel published, or just freaking out their neighbours who never knew they were swingers. But they're passionately driven individuals, impatient, nerdy, often over-educated or under-educated, but almost always quirky.
Try it. You might juss love it.
1 comment:
Hi Penny
Thea here I love your site its great, I had a quick read and will have a better look later!! xxx
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