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Recently I presented a question relating to the point of blogging.

To many the point was the pointlessness. Or an open plan diary for you and the world to share. Or a stream of conciousness (or unconciousness in the case of the Old Git) to satiate a desire to communicate something to somebody somewhere…

I first started mine for a completely different reason – I wanted to learn how to build a website and get a podcast together – at the time I was starting to mix music again (unfortunately work has taken that desire from me for the moment) and I wanted to be able to share it with others. Rather than take the easy route I built a site from the ground up learning html and xml and all those fun ‘ml’ things tripping over each obstacle as I went and struggling through (the remnants of those pages are still in my archives). Then to facilitate the graphical side I started to get my head around Photoshop and Illustrator so I could make my own banners, buttons and widgets… Continue reading →

Blogs have become great means to stay connected online and express everything freely. Some suggest have a blog if you can’t have a printing press. Say whatever you want to. What if you don’t want to share your assertions with the entire Internet? Blogger has an option to blog for a limited circle. For such ‘invite only blog’ you only need to make a few changes to the default settings. It is very simple.

When you set up your blog on Blogger the default settings are to display your blog to the world and be displayed in search engine results and for everyone to read because most people are looking to build a following for their blog. In case you are considering invite only blog, you have to go settings where you can blog block search engines from crawling your Blog and stop anyone you have not personally invited by email from seeing your blog. (Hint: click ‘Settings’ in your dashboard Followed by ‘Permissions’ in the top menu. Rest is self explanatory). Continue reading →

I’ve been “blogging” in one form or another since 1997. The word “blog” didn’t exist then. Nor did Google – it was Yahoo! and Alta Vista then!

People had “personal websites” where they would “showcase” themselves, their interests, their hobbies, their photos, their art, their poetry and lyrics, their favourite websites, whatever. Continue reading →

Then I took a deep breath and quit waving my hands around like ‘lil girl and got on with it. I have read some of the other folks response and I gotta warn you all now. I am not that deep. Or business-like. Or grown up.

I blog simply because I want to be heard.

Ever feel like you are a walking contradiction? One person in your head and another with people? Yes, I know, shades of Sybil, but bear with me. I think, to a certain degree, everyone is someone else at least part of the time. Social Networking has exploded in popularity recently and I think I know why. You get to be yourself! Or someone like you Continue reading →