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willhub

willhub

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So I've sort of got into blogging, although I've not done anything yet, it came as part of my university assignment.

Perhaps I'm thinking the wrong way, but I just feel that if I post anything, unless I'm an absolute expert in the matter I'm just going to get slated by people and people saying "you don't know what you're on about" and "you suck" etc...

I found an interesting video article that I watched about gaming, and thought it'd be a good subject for my first blog post, as I have opinions on the matter and I can back up things I say when I need to, but I don't consider myself an expert...

I think of blogging as a way I can use my time more wisely, if I find anything interesting and have an opinion, then I can voice it and share it on a blog.

Am I just being a wuss? Am I thinking of blogging the wrong way?
 
My blog is just going to be a general technology blog.

I've got a few articles I'm planning on writing and it's a mixed bunch:

GTA Five, Certificate Authorities (the recent security breaches), StumbleUpon (because I like it), and talking about games making us smarter (inspired by an article on TED).

Currently writing the one on games making us smarter, I'm just talking about the basic skills that they improve, such as hand-eye coordination and reaction times such as the well known games like UT series, CSS etc.., then onto those games that really can make us smarter like RPG and MMOORPG etc..

By no means am I an expert but I'm expressing my thoughts, but I think the main difficulty may be the SEO and formatting the blog post which is part of my assignment anyway.


I'm going to set up another blog, that I'm less bothered and less stressing about, that's just going to be about my cycling hobby, and basically any club runs I do, or eventful rides I'll post about them.
 
I've finally done a single blog post, one blog post, takes some time, I'll just hope it all goes smoothly and try not to stress out when I notice not that many hits :p
 
When I've posted a blog post I post it to Facebook and Twitter, I don't see the problem to be honest. It's not spamming because it's not frequent like spam and it's not the same sort of stuff as spam.
 
For ANY image I use off the interweb, do I need to ask for permission, for example I want to do a post about GTA Five, I'm going to have to ask permission from anywhere I wish to use the image from?
 
Freefaller said:
I started one... and then stopped because I just didn't have the time. I just use facebook to effecftively "blog" my life. You can download your facebook profile too, so you can re-read your life if you're interested. I also use forums such as OcUK to air thoughts and rant... I just don't have time with spending 30mins or more typing up my thoughts. It serves little purpose for me really as who'd be interested?!
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I'm finding blogs helpful because the process of writing it up gets me looking and reading into the subject I am blogging on, I'm abit lazy when it comes to reading stuff and I need a reason to do it.

Edrof said:
Cheers! To start with, the blog is basically going to be a repository for the articles that I have published around the internet, so I have quite a back catalogue of stuff to update and whack on there. Most of the stuff going on now will probably be about creepy mysteries and weird haunty stuff.
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Well it's all certainly interesting I'm sure stuff like that will prove to be popular.
 
PianoBasher said:
Blogging: Mostly for delusional, attention-seeking muppets who mistakenly believe that other people actually give a **** about their life and inane activities. :p

Occasionally there'll be a good blog out there (eg: technical ones or people going through some sort of epic journey or struggle) but for the most part they seem to fit the above description, IMO.
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Load of ****

I'm not attention seeking, I'm not under the impression that people care about my life.
 
It's hard to get readers, I've come to terms with that, in fact I've come to terms with the fact my blog will probably never get more than a few hundred visitors a month possibly not even that. But I'm going to still persevere with the blog, it's a much better past time than playing games or watching TOWIE, I'm a Celebrity or Coronation Street.
 
I'm pleased.

Not amazing, but I wrote a large article on Windows 8 Developer Preview, admittedly, probably too large for a blog as it was over 2000 words, but I'm making use of Twitter, and I got mentioned on this dotnetdoug site http://paper.li/DotNetDoug/1313622880

It's only up for like a few hours on that site but still pretty pleased :D
 
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