What is Blog? Baby don’t hurt me!
I’ve never blogged before, so this should serve as a warning that I’m not really sure what the commonly accepted stylings are, or what to do. I like to write. I did well with it in school. I really don’t know about all of these new technologies I’m getting dumped into though. A quick glimpse at the ‘add this’ button on a few other blogs that I was reading listed over thirty ways to add something. I’m not even sure what a trackback or a technorati is, so I’m hoping I can just start writing and linking to things, and that it will all fall into place sooner or later. I do like finding out about new things, and there are certainly a ton of new things here.
If anyone with some blogging experience should happen to stumble across this post and feel like sharing some knowledge, please do. I really wish there was a ‘So, you want to blog?’ manual. Maybe there is, buried in the interwebs somewhere. I’ll see if I can’t find it later.
I think that I’m a latecomer to the scene when it comes to this, and that most of the other people that blog successfully have probably been doing it while the technology for doing it evolved into its current state. That puts them at somewhat of an advantage I guess, of having a more innate understanding of the thing. RSS Feeds, Tag Clouds, XFN — XML tags that link sites and show interpersonal relationships at the same time. Its an amazing world of web gadgetry I had no idea about. Its actually a wonderful challenge and I’m looking forward to taking it on.