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To blog or not to blog

Every time I see the "Hacer" title I feel compelled to do something, whatever, to fill it in. Very Gestaltic. Anyway, my question is, do you blog? Don't you think blogging takes away a lot of the time you could be using more productively in other things? Do you ever worry about who will read your blog? Does a blog no one reads exists? I remember once reading that example for personal websites. If no one reads your blog, does your ego will take it badly? ;) In my usual slow way of reacting, I've been thinking about the utility of having a blog when I can just pester people around with my comments on their blogs or on boards.

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I blog for myself -...

nickg wrote:
I blog for myself - I enjoy it. Chances are if you enjoy it, then other people will too - why not share?

I did blog about this a few months ago though as well.. which as I read it now is quite amusing.. "7 reasons to blog"


Nick, I read your piece and I loved it! I'll definitely will go for it now, though I guess my blog would fall into the category "OMG ROFL this guy is a freak" interesting". :)

As a matter of fact, I started one over the week-end after realizing my webhost had now a scrypt ready-to-install. I'm not a technical person at all, shame on me, and secondly, English is not my mother tongue. But what the hell, I'll give it a try. Here's the link to my very-empty-for-now blog. I hope to be able to add more meat around it. Looks too minimalistic right now.

 
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