Why it is good to have a blog

Not because it’s trendy or fancy. Far from it. There are different purposes:

 

  1. First and foremost you may be blogging, because you feel an urge to share your thoughts on different things / events in this world. This is called a personal blog.
  2. Then you may have a professional / technical blog. Lots of guys (and girls) who do blog for a living are of course professional in the field of blogging, so they usually have a blog-related blog in which they share their thoughts on how to do it, etc. Or you have a certain skill, like writing programs in Lisp. You are certain that it’s a cool thing and want to share your views and adventures with it with the whole world. Or sports, cars, music, videos, you name it. Even a niche like how to build the best car-stereo, or how to take care of your degus, chinchillas, etc. can be interesting - not just to you, but to your fellow internet-surfers as well. These are called technical / niche / professional blogs (I am aware of the fact that by now there may be proper names “invented” for these, but I dare not to look after it.)
  3. Marketing oriented. The sole purpose of these is to sell their “product” or service. This may be a good thing after all, if it is coupled with the professional blog type, but if it only want to blindly sell something without providing anything it’s a no go.
I have a 1., type blog - this one you are reading right now. And I have just figured why it’s good to have one. Mainly because…      

  • you can keep a record of how your though process changed / worked over the years
  • if you write in a foreign language (like I do probably 50% of the time here) then you can also keep that part of your brain “entertained” or at least in shape ;)
  • if you do some highly technical stuff sometimes, and write a nice tutorial about it, you can look it up later if you forgot how you did it. also people in the world with the some problem will be grateful if your solution works, or at least gives them an idea which works
  • … et cetera…
So having a personal blog is good, because it is like a diary. An electronic diary, that’s all, no more, no less. It’s also good to keep in touch with your friends, colleagues, acquaintances (all your facebook and iwiw “friends”). 

If you want to have the best blogging solution available nowadays ( best in the sense of 1) widely supported and accepted 2) constantly being improved and fixed 3) simple enough to set up for yourself even if you have never done anything similar ever before 4) having millions of plugins for all kinds of extensibility features you can think of like shops, newsletters, polls, … ) my suggestion is to just go and grab

Wordpress logo

Wordpress logo

or if you do not have your own server then you can go to the other wordpress site and
sign up for free to have a blog like
yourname.wordpress.com
Try it out for yourself! You won’t regret it ;)
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