Comments on: “So you wanna start a blog?” http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/ random musings from a primate Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:59:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: tfserna http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-111902 tfserna Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:07:06 +0000 http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-111902 Great article! Great site and very inspiring articles! Now that you recently entered the Tinderbox cult... Have you read this on the same subject by Mark Bernstein: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving Fond regards from Spain, TFS Great article! Great site and very inspiring articles!

Now that you recently entered the Tinderbox cult… Have you read this on the same subject by Mark Bernstein:

10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving

Fond regards from Spain, TFS

]]> By: amazing development » A Vision for a Blog http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-111929 amazing development » A Vision for a Blog Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:19:39 +0000 http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-111929 [...] I don’t have my own blog, I’m just occasionally posting here on Frank’s blog. This is because I don’t think I have lots of important or relevant ideas to justify the existence of my own blog, nor would I like to invest a lot of time. Now I found a kind of official confirmation for my point of view: Doug from a million monkeys typing writes in his latest post: Since it’s now possible for newcomers to the blogging world to set up a Blogger or WordPress.com account in mere minutes without the slightest idea about what one is doing or why, it seems like 98% of the blogs on the Web boast but a half-dozen erratic posts before going dormant forever. Of those that are left, most offer only simple “my link for the day” posts, which of course are fine for friends or people of very similar interests, but not so much for the world at large. [...] […] I don’t have my own blog, I’m just occasionally posting here on Frank’s blog. This is because I don’t think I have lots of important or relevant ideas to justify the existence of my own blog, nor would I like to invest a lot of time. Now I found a kind of official confirmation for my point of view: Doug from a million monkeys typing writes in his latest post: Since it’s now possible for newcomers to the blogging world to set up a Blogger or WordPress.com account in mere minutes without the slightest idea about what one is doing or why, it seems like 98% of the blogs on the Web boast but a half-dozen erratic posts before going dormant forever. Of those that are left, most offer only simple “my link for the day” posts, which of course are fine for friends or people of very similar interests, but not so much for the world at large. […]

]]> By: Vicky http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-111967 Vicky Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:18:07 +0000 http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-111967 Intriguingly enough, the blog can become symbiotically likned to its original purpose. For instance, while fibre arts provides much of the content and "raison d'être" for my blog, the blog, in turn provides me with a clear map of where I've been and an incentive to keep working. The mentality of having to continue to "feed the blog" can, on days when simply nothing else will work, keep me going on a piece or project. Intriguingly enough, the blog can become symbiotically likned to its original purpose. For instance, while fibre arts provides much of the content and “raison d’être” for my blog, the blog, in turn provides me with a clear map of where I’ve been and an incentive to keep working. The mentality of having to continue to “feed the blog” can, on days when simply nothing else will work, keep me going on a piece or project.

]]> By: Gone to the Dogs » Blog Archive » Bloggin’ & friends http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-112135 Gone to the Dogs » Blog Archive » Bloggin’ & friends Sun, 02 Apr 2006 10:27:17 +0000 http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-112135 [...] I sent this article by Doug Johnston of A Million Monkeys Typing off to a friend and then realised that it was more efficient to pass it along to a bunch of friends via the web. This is, after all, part of the basic point of a blog. [...] […] I sent this article by Doug Johnston of A Million Monkeys Typing off to a friend and then realised that it was more efficient to pass it along to a bunch of friends via the web. This is, after all, part of the basic point of a blog. […]

]]> By: Nitin Badjatia » Some good advice to new bloggers http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-112240 Nitin Badjatia » Some good advice to new bloggers Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:14:41 +0000 http://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. […]

]]> By: Maureen http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-112666 Maureen Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:44:07 +0000 http://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: eletherious http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-113837 eletherious Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:41:06 +0000 http://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: a million monkeys typing » Getting Past the Ego http://douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/03/29/starting-blog/#comment-114945 a million monkeys typing » Getting Past the Ego Sun, 07 May 2006 15:25:56 +0000 http://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? […]

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