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June 26, 2005
Blogging 101 - How To Blog
By QBlog in Blogging 101
The winner of the 2005 Weblog Awards for "Best article or essay about weblogs" demonstrates the futility of this "Blogging 101" series by explaining all you need to know about blogging in a single post. How To Blog is Tony Pierce's popular essay on how to build an internal combustion engine with common household items.
No, not really you dork. His essay is on how to blog, which is why it's titled "How To Blog." And since this "Blogging 101" thing was created to help people blog, I thought sharing the wisdom of a Weblog Award Winner would be a good thing to do.
Here are a couple of highlights from the famed "How To Blog" essay:
1. write every day.
15. dont be afraid if you think something has been said before. it has. and better. big whoop. say it anyway using your own words as honestly as you can. just let it out.
26. dont be afraid to come across as an asswipe. own your asswipeness.
29. dont apologize about not blogging. nobody cares. just start blogging again.
So, get blogging. Do it like your life depends on it, or maybe like someone else's life depends on it. Sometimes I pretend that every time I publish a blog post a starving child in Asia gets a meal. Or, if you don't want to go the benevolent route, pretend that every blog post kills a terrorist. It may be true. You never know.
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Comments
Different than what?
I saw a link to one of your blogging essays a while back, and I've been reading ever since...despite my lack of knowledge about or interest in Quixtar. Your site confirms my theory about blogging, which is that good writing is key. How else could I get sucked into reading a special-interest blog covering a topic in which I'm not that interested? :-)
This is the jist of blogging. Blog blog blog. Don't suck and write brief are the other 2 things one should consider.
QBlog> pretend that every blog post kills a terrorist.
Imran> My definition of terrorist is quite different, a bit more...uh....generic. So we agree big time ;)
Posted by: Imran Aziz | June 26, 2005 7:35 AM