Starting a Blog

Masamune

Jedi Council Member
Hi everyone. I am interested in starting a blog and I am wondering if anyone has some advice for a beginner to blogging. What service would be the best to use? Is there a way to maintain privacy/anonymity with the blog? Does anyone have any other advice for a beginning blogger? Thanks. :)
 
Hi Masamune. I have 2 blogs. One at Blogger and one at Wordpress. There are other hosting services, but I haven't tried any others yet.
Blogger is the easiest to use, for me, but you will have to sign up at any service you use.
As far as anonymous blogging goes, I use a yahoo account I made just for that purpose and don't use any real names or anything, but really, in a near totaltarian age like we live in today, i dont think thereš anything you can do if someone really, really wants to identify you.

I could be wrong though, as there are a lot of brilliant computer savvy people out there, but Im not one of them. :)


_https://www.blogger.com/start
_http://wordpress.com/
 
Masamune said:
Does anyone have any other advice for a beginning blogger?

Either of the 2 links Buddy gave are good places to start. Have you thought what you are going to write about? Is there a specific focus? You'll want to submit your URL to google - http://www.google.com/addurl/ and other search engines -http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.html . Do you plan on writing about current events, esoterica, local politics, etc?
 
with wordpress you have the option of keeping your blog personal or allowing it to be placed on search engines

_http://www.thenewageblog.com




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Hi newager,

Welcome to the forum. :) We recommend all new members to post an introduction in the Newbies section telling us a bit about themselves, and how they found their way here. Have a read through that section to get an idea of how others have done it. Thanks.
 
A lady I've quipped with for years has started a number of blogs, including group blogs. After hearing her rounds of complaints about Blogger ( I use it anyway ) - though she went back to it briefly in a pinch - she had started in Typepad - and ended up at Soapblox. But mostly I found that blogging could be too much like shouting down into a well...with no echo. I did post at WordPress for 2 years with good toys but found My Opera Community much more sociable. I haven't really done enough at Livejournal and Open Salon to feel like offering much of an opinion - except to note that it's nice to have 'neighbours.'
Newspapers,Libraries,Universities...all these have hints on navigating. And SEO optimization people have discovered that networking is smart business. I will say Facebook can get away with one if you let it : but obviously that's not happening incognito.
The first time I saw my name peeking out from behind the supposedly secret TypeKey registration revealed anonymity as a dream...and there are better tools for search now. But a few manage to get people to keep quiet because of concerns about being in the public eye and job security.
I kept notes from the days I was getting my 'net feet' indexed at _http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/links/ See About for intro on what the layout is supposed to accomplish.
 
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