Here’s what USA Today had to say about Blogs and the people who write/keep them:
“Online journals popular with the opinionated”
Need more information? You can start with Blogger.
As one of those quoted in the article said (ok, it was Ev Williams, Blogger founder!): “A lot of the main draw of the Internet isn’t consuming things, it’s communication,” he says. “You can speak, and there’s a potential that you can reach a lot of people. It’s really about connecting to people.” Ah, just like I always thought – people to people, content, communication. Potent mix.
What do I use blogs for? I currently use them as a way to present a grant that I’m doing, this journal of more far ranging topics, I used to have one that was work-related (to keep a log of what I had done and when), and the last week I’ve used one to show a group of people the progress on a group quilt I was quilting.
Blogger makes it easy to add today’s progress report or rant or topic or interesting links – you go to a web page, type your thoughts, click post and publish – voila – it gets FTP’d to your directory and is live. Doesn’t get much easier than that. Archives itself as you go along. (That, for me, is the most wonderful thing about blogger. Archived, dated content from the past – automatically!)
The other wonderful thing about blogs in general is that they often link to other interesting sites. I often go to the blogger home page just to surf the most recently updated or the featured blogs. Brings back memories of when we were first able to look at web pages and I would surf from one site to another, following a chain of links.
So here’s to Blogger and the whole Blog movement. Let the voices of the net community be heard.
