UPDATE: 2 First Person Blogging Questions
I’m still learning the blogging ropes, and here’s my biggest blogging challenge: I actually am finding that I have a lot of things I want to say and topics I want to write about. But at the same time, I’m insanely busy at work and home, so I can’t seem to find time. I realize it’s a short-term phase, but how the heck do so many bloggers (and I’m assuming they’re still performing at work) find the time to get so many posts up each week? Hopefully I’ll get better and it gets easier — but this is really a challenge.
Second, while I haven’t been writing as much as I’d like, there is an interesting conversation going on in the comments of my “To Ghost Post or Not” post. At this point, is re-inserting myself into that conversation rude? Maybe I’ll just quietly observe and learn, and write a recap of it.
Oh wait, I do have a third question. Can someone point me to the spell checker? I get that typos who there’s a real human behind the blog (I’ll admit, every time I hear that, I cringe) but we’re in communications and typos drive me nuts. It’s so simple, but so so so frustrating.
Update: I’ve been pointed to the spell checker. Apparently it comes with the paid version of Wordpress, which I haven’t bought yet. But, I have since moved to Firefox and am now enjoying the in-line spell checker. Ahhhhh, the world is right again.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:04 PM
Time is the big issue for bloggers, as you probably have discovered the time involved is often the time you spend on reading other people’s blogs to come up with story ideas. Though, reading other blogs for me is also a quick way to come up with some ideas. I do that by either following the blogs in my feed reader, or by reviewing what pops up on certain keywords. I write a lot about “corporate blogs,” so finding a number of posts about that term every day gives me lots of fodder for posts.
If you are feeling overwhelmed, don’t worry too much, maybe concentrate on writing a quality post over several days to break things up. Do a lot of research and thinking on that one post. You might find that post will get noticed because of the amount of resource you conduct into the topic.
Actually the discussion between two other readers on a blog is a delicate matter. If I were writing on Robert Scoble’s blog, I’d have no problem with chatting with another blog reader. Where you have a blog with few comments. It is probably best to address the blogger rather than the other commenter. Unless the comments and the post is very relevant to what blogger originally talked about. To me it’s a matter of courtesy, therefore I hope the conversation was okay with you.
March 29th, 2007 at 3:31 PM
Thanks for the tip, John. And I found the conversation in my comments section very interesting — so thanks for keeping the dialogue going!
~kari
April 6th, 2007 at 11:54 AM
:-)
March 6th, 2008 at 12:30 PM
I type my stuff in OpenOffice and then I copy and paste the text. That’s how I get my spell checking.
And take into account I write in two languages!! :)