Starting a Blog

Blogs, short of web logs, are web sites that discuss topics just about anything under the sun - there are blogs about travel, pets, personal experiences, finance, technology, photography, and even about mundane things in life such as politics. Corporations and businesses have started using blogs as part of their branding and public relations effort, and celebrities and people of note from all over the world got into the fray too. Even over-the-hill rapper MC Hammer has his own blog.

Based on the last survey, there are now about 120 million blogs on the Internet, so there's plenty for everyone.

I started blogging in 2005. The first one that I started is a personal one - a venue where I can post my thoughts and experiences, bitch about what's unfair about life and make fun of things I find ridiculous. In fact, it's one nasty experience during a drinking session with my buddies that got me into blogging and writing entries for it became some sort of catharsis for my experiences. Needless to say, I first posted my entries anonymously, under a pen name.

I now maintain several blogs as a hobby and as my contribution to the information overload. I also follow several ones to keep me abreast with what's been happening around, and I spend many waking hours reading them - in my home PC, in my office PC, even on my iPod Touch.

The blog that I am starting now is about how it can become a second job.