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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Starting a Blog, continued...

Starting a blog is easy enough. There are several sites on the Internet that offer free tools and hosting for blogs. I use Blogger.com as my host, but a budding blogger can also use other sites such as TypePad and LiveJournal. Social networking sites, such as Multiply, Friendster and MySpace, alsohas blogging features that their members can use. If you are going to do a photoblog, you may use Flickr, PhotoBucket or Picasa to host your images for free. A site called Twitter (twitter.com) is great if you want to do microblogging, in which your posts are limited to about 160 characters or less.


One of the most critical things you should remember about blogging is that you should blog about things or topics that you know about. For example, I blog about astronomy because amateur astronomy has been a passion of mine since college days, and it's something that I feel confident writing about. Discussing topics that you know and feel comfortable with can make keeping your blog easy, and your audience will appreciate it too if you can show some credibility about the topic of your blog. You don't have to have expert level knowledge about what you're blogging about but you should be able to post intelligent things about them.

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