People love to make fun of bloggers. They call us pajama-heads, wanabe journalists, and opinion surfers. All these debates and funny names will seem quaint in ten years. Soon we will realize that bloggers are one thing, and one thing only.
Bloggers are writers who use blog software to publish their work on the web.
Nothing else matters. Ten years from now most of writing will be published on the web, and you don't want to be one of the sad suckers who can't use the technology.
Bookseller Chick and novelist Kevin Radthorne agree with me, and just published a landmark survey of her readers, answering the fundamental question "Why blog?" with some expert advice. Here's a taste:
"Blogging, with all its informality and immediacy, creates a sense of closeness between author and reader that you can foster with the tone or voice that you use for each post. By assuming an approachable style, you invite the reader to put aside their shyness and interact."
Hi Jason, and thanks for the mention. I've found the exchange of ideas about blogging on Bookseller Chick's blog to be very illuminating. As I noted over there in my response to her posting, the act of your having included me here from having 'seen' me there validates one of her central points, that the blog 'experience' expands one's networking reach dramatically.
I will be very interested to see what other people have to say in response to her very detailed posting - she provided a lot of solid support for blogging in general.
Posted by: Kevin Radthorne | September 7, 2007 10:17 PM | Permalink to Comment