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Why Do Bloggers Blog?
Filed Under 42 (Life the Universe & Everything) on January 29, 2007 at 12:18 am
This is a question Daren Barefoot is investigating. If you’re a blogger and you’re reading this he’d really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete his short survey at www.whydoyoublog.com/survey.
As to why I blog, in short:
- Gives me a place where I can keep a record of all the technical stuff I figure out and the cool software I come across making it easy to find in future. When I come across a problem I know I’ve solved before I just go to my blog and search! I could keep that kind of stuff private but why? When it’s on the web I can get it form anywhere and others can benefit too!
- Gives me a place to send people when they ask me a question I’ve answered before.
- From time to time I actually enjoy writing. I know the vast majority of my articles are technical but when I feel like writing an article on something I’m interested in (even if it is just Harry Potter some of the time) I have a place to do it.
- By writing down my opinions and predictions it gives me a good way to look back and see how good of a handle I really have on things.
- I actually have some readers!
I blog for the same reason the rest of the world (who isn’t a techie and doesn’t have much to say):
1. I want attention from people; to be known and remembered.
2. There’s a lot I want to say, but rarely know how to put it, whether people will read it, and how to make it interesting, so i usually give up halfway through and it turns out crap.
More specific to me (me, me, me!):
3. I like to learn, and assume other people do.
4. I love to write, though it tends to be the hard to get started and organise my thoughts in a linear fashion in the first place.
5. I’m a student of human nature, people’s reactions, and manipulating such things. I would love to be able to phrase such in a blogging atmosphere, but I haven’t stumbled upon the way to do it whereby people read it 🙂