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Blogging
I got an email from an old family friend today that commented about my blog and how he liked when people have blogs. I agree completely. The first time I saw a blog, I did not get what the fuss was all about. I did not understand what the benefits were. There are many benefits to blogging. Chief among them is being able to speak to many people simultaneously whether it be family, friends, or even commercially. The ability to tell the world what is going on in your life without having to write a separate letter to everyone you know.
You can use a blog as a personal message board to spread the word of current events in your life, or you can use it commercially. Some people use them as a journalistic tool to discuss news stories of the day. The uses are endless as I have learned over time. One of the benefits of having a blog is that you have a permanent log of past conversations. Your readers can respond to you on the web site making it interactive allowing readers to input or give feedback.
With the invention of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, your simple personal blog can become global with a simple cut and paste of a simple URL into your RSS reader. This is a very powerful tool to allow people to get the content of your blog without having to go there. They can add that URL feed to their web site or aggregator and read many pages at once through their pages. There are other tools such as Technorati that allow you to put tags on your story. These tags are integrated into the Technorati web site so that when anyone searches for a specific tag that your web site has, your page will be in the search results.
Blogging is a very addictive hobby as I have found for myself. If you have never tried it, you should try it sometime. There are many free web sites that you can sign up for. A few examples are Blogger, Yahoo! 360, Wordpress, VOX, Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, among others. I am sure you can find one that you will like. You will be telling your story to the world in no time.
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