I was typical of the others – 21 years old, bristling with confidence for no particular reason other than the normal amounts of testosterone coursing through my body. We were also in the military and, partly from our training and partly because of our callow youth, we were fearless. Now that I am older, I have come to believe that

Blogging offers a powerful way to communicate and share what is happening in your world. When I use this word “world,” I am, of course, referring to the local surroundings of a person and that person’s social environment. I am also referring to the realm of ideas. Herein is the basis, I think, of the incredible popularity of blogging among people in all walks of life: It is a way to express one’s unique point of view from one’s unique place in life. Humanity needs to communicate. All of the archaeological relics of past civilizations, the cave paintings, petroglyphs, bas-reliefs, hieroglyphics, scrolls etc., (see “The Story”) show this necessity to tell one’s story. Humanity is also very curious about everything. People need to know things too. These two natural characteristics of mankind, the need to tell and the need to know, are together, what drives this popularity of “the blog.”

What I want to describe here is similar but is not exactly the same. I propose a “Micro-post” for a blog which could be described as a pithy, meaningful, well thought-out but very brief post that can appear on a “mini-blog site” or on a regular blog. This is a concentrated message of one sentence or several that is perhaps no longer than 300 words. There is, therefore, a lttle more allowance than one has on Twitter and you can fit a lot of meaningful thoughts in 300 words or less.

 There are some writers who claim that the key to productivity is to simply sit down at the writing table and write.  Write anything; just begin to write.  Write now, not later.  Very often the ideas will begin to flow when the imagination is primed this way.  There are many other ways to prompt the imagination [...]

If you are thinking about starting a blog, or already have one and want to start another, how do you decide what to blog about if you do not have any ideas?  Many people who are considering a blog, ask what should they blog about.  The decision about what your blog should be focused on is an easy one if you answer [...]

Not all writers are bloggers, but all bloggers are writers.  The more time you have spent writing a blog, the more you may realize that blogging is like any other production of human creativity.  The more highly developed, refined and skillfully wrought, the more popular and sought after the product becomes .  This is true with well-produced [...]

Since their inception, blogs have evolved. There are still blogs used to record the personal details of the life experiences of the blogger but now there are specialized, informational blogs that discuss favorite hobbies, like knitting, rock collecting, aquariums, pets, sports, cooking, candy, cupcake artistry, electronic gadgetry, toys, art, paranormal experiences and just about anything else that you can think of in which people are interested or in which they have some expertise.

The suggested guideline I would give, therefore, especially if you do not yet have a blog but are thinking about it is this: “If you hate people and find them annoying, choose another activity like scatology or buoy maintenance or searching for comets and astroids in exotic desert locations.”

There are many fine books on the subject of blogging and I haven’t read all of them yet, but of the books I have read, one stands out as indispensable to me.  It is, in fact, the first book about blogging that I read when I was first starting out and discovered that I did [...]

  There are many places to look for information about blogging. You can go back and read each of the relevant posts about setting up or starting a blog, of course, or, you can take time and effort to work through all the steps yourself and, although it might take you some time, you can [...]