Why Do You Blog?

It's often hard to come up with new and interesting things to blog about. It's easy enough to go through the headlines and try to find something interesting, or to write about what you did over the weekend, or if the Colts are on their way to winning a Super Bowl; but if you're blogging daily, it's easy to run out of steam. This is when a blogger typically starts asking, "Why am I blogging anyways?"

This is especially true if your blog isn't making any money and has seemingly no readers. I'm lucky enough to have a few friends that I know, outside of the internet, who check up with this blog regularly enough to inspire me to keep writing. I also get about 30 or so random visits per day, but I know they got here by chance and are not here to stay. My posts aren't specific enough to any one topic to keep a steady readership.

So I got to thinking about why I'm blogging, which led me to think about why I started in the first place. Then I remembered that I had a worthless job that allowed for about six hours of free time on the internet. That was two and a half years ago. Now I feel rushed when I blog, trying to do it over a lunch break and save the posts for later.

Over two and a half years, I think I'm still blogging for the same reasons I started. Ironically enough, I just looked back and saw that my first post is about why I'm blogging (Read it here). Unfortunately, I don't have the time to write posts the way I had originally intended to. For now, I'll just keep blogging away.

Here are a few good examples of what I originally wanted to blog about and how I wanted to do it. Here are the first three posts I did; a few "must read" classics:

And Thirty-Four Cent
When in Rome
His Ride's Better Than Ya'lls

Linking To This Blog- Your Time Here is Up

There are a million things I have in mind for this blog (getting my own domain name, hosting, new title, etc.), but one thing I've been meaning to do for a long time is clean up my links.

I'm starting with that long ass list to your left called, "Indianapolis Bloggers." That list started as a way for me to easily keep track of everyone who has joined the Indianapolis Bloggers Ring. It started out pretty small, and I enjoyed keeping up with what everyone was doing.

Well, that site has grown and has about 40 members now. It's a list that is fairly irrelevant to this blog and one that I no longer keep up with on a regular basis.

So, within this next month I'm going to do some Spring cleaning. If your blog is in that list and you're already linking back to this blog, I'll keep you there. I know from checking my site stats that I rarely get visitors through these blogs, but it's always nice to see your blog on someone's blogroll.

If your name is on that list and you're not linking back to this blog (and if I don't check your blog regularly because I think you're boring), then you will be removed by the end of the month. Nothing personal, I just get tired of seeing it.

If you are ever interested in exchanging links, just let me know. You can leave a comment on the blog saying so.

B: Brian Becomes Blogger by Boistrously Bringing Beloved Brain Before Blogosphere

I finally came across Brian's blog the other day and thought I would bring it to everyone's attention. He's actually been blogging for a little over a month now, so there's already some stuff to check out. The name of his blog is aptly titled, "B." It's "A chic, modish weblog." Here's a bit more about his blog, ripped from his About Page:

B… well, it’s my first initial, and I guess it could represent B -ing yourself - or myself. Who am I kidding, I thought chic was spelled sheik, but apparently that’s an Islamic patriarch of a tribe or family.

B is not focused on any one topic, what fun would that be? You’ll probably see posts mostly about music and web sites, as I am a web developer professionally and a musician amateur…tion…ally.

I’ve also been a long time fan of computer games and I play WoW on a pretty consistent basis. I started back in January of ‘06 and I’m still going strong, so you’ll see a good number of WoW posts, although probably not enough to make this a WoW blog.

If you want to know more about me, go up a level to my website home page and read the about section there.

Won’t you come along on the journey with me?

Brian is hilarious and can make any topic interesting, so I'm looking forward to wasting lots of time at his blog. It's also more fun to read stuff from friends than from random bloggers, so that's cool too. Anyways, check it it, add it to your blogroll, subscribe to the feed, leave comments and all that fun stuff. You'll be glad you did.

You can find a link to this blog in my sidebar to the right, under "Blogging Friends."

Snap.com

You may have noticed that if you put your cursor over the links on my homepage that you will see a mini preview of where that link will take you. I'm trying out this feature from Snap.com to see if I like it.

So far, I think it's pretty cool. Let me know what you think, especially if it annoys you.

If you haven't heard of Snap.com, they are a new type of search engine. I haven't spent too much time yet checking it out, but it's supposed to get smarter as more people use it. Here is an article on it, if you want to learn more.