Comments on: “So you wanna start a blog?” http://douglasjohnston.net/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=starting-blog random musings from a primate Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:14:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: a million monkeys typing » Getting Past the Ego http://douglasjohnston.net/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-114945 a million monkeys typing » Getting Past the Ego Sun, 07 May 2006 15:25:56 +0000 http://www.douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-114945 [...] A particularly lucid comment left by eletherious on my post “So you wanna start a blog?” has me thinking of a suitable response: However, what you do not answer is why would someone blog rather than create a web site? Both requre the same focus and discipline over focus and content. It would seem that a web site provides more content and design flexibility whereas a blog is more one dimensional - literary / literal? [...] [...] A particularly lucid comment left by eletherious on my post “So you wanna start a blog?” has me thinking of a suitable response: However, what you do not answer is why would someone blog rather than create a web site? Both requre the same focus and discipline over focus and content. It would seem that a web site provides more content and design flexibility whereas a blog is more one dimensional – literary / literal? [...]

]]> By: eletherious http://douglasjohnston.net/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-113837 eletherious Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:41:06 +0000 http://www.douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-113837 Thank you for the effort and rigour to think through and examine why to blog. You have given shape to many of the questions I have about starting a blog, which I have wanted to do for several years. ( I have not done so because I can not distill a focus sharp enought to overcome the vanity factor. ) However, what you do not answer is why would someone blog rather than create a web site ? Both requre the same focus and discipline over focus and content. It would seem that a web site provides more content and design flexibility whereas a blog is more one dimensional - literary / literal? Thank you for the effort and rigour to think through and examine why to blog. You have given shape to many of the questions I have about starting a blog, which I have wanted to do for several years. ( I have not done so because I can not distill a focus sharp enought to overcome the vanity factor. )

However, what you do not answer is why would someone blog rather than create a web site ? Both requre the same focus and discipline over focus and content. It would seem that a web site provides more content and design flexibility whereas a blog is more one dimensional – literary / literal?

]]> By: Maureen http://douglasjohnston.net/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-112666 Maureen Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:44:07 +0000 http://www.douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-112666 And I've come a visiting via a Link from Vicky's "gone to the dogs" .I guess I qualify as one of those million monkeys typing! I came to blogging in the depths of ignorance and have been floundering ever since.Whether my input on my obsession ( creative stitching) is sufficiently interesting to casual readers is debatable,but it is providing me with a journal of projects attempted,discarded and accomplished. I'll be checking in regularly to glean new tips mate! And I’ve come a visiting via a Link from Vicky’s “gone to the dogs”
.I guess I qualify as one of those million monkeys typing!
I came to blogging in the depths of ignorance and have been floundering ever since.Whether my input on my obsession ( creative stitching) is sufficiently interesting to casual readers is debatable,but it is providing me with a journal of projects attempted,discarded and accomplished.
I’ll be checking in regularly to glean new tips mate!

]]> By: Nitin Badjatia » Some good advice to new bloggers http://douglasjohnston.net/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-112240 Nitin Badjatia » Some good advice to new bloggers Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:14:41 +0000 http://www.douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-112240 [...] Here’s some good advice for new and would be bloggers.  I’m sure I could use this advice as well. [...] [...] Here’s some good advice for new and would be bloggers.  I’m sure I could use this advice as well. [...]

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