{"id":276,"date":"2005-12-26T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=276"},"modified":"2005-12-26T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T09:45:00","slug":"virtual-surf-report-how-to-be-a-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/virtual-surf-report-how-to-be-a-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Surf Report: How to Be a Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Monday, 26 December 2005<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re reading this blog, chances are you know what a blog IS. And if you don&#8217;t already HAVE your own blog, you might want to get one, but you might feel a little inhibited.<\/p>\n<p>The easiest thing for you to do is head for one of the three free blogging websites below, and open a free account.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\">Blogger (or Blogspot)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/default.aspx\">Xanga<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\">LiveJournal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve gotten yourself a blog, you&#8217;re ready to start expressing yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing about these three free services is that you only need occasional access to the internet to be a blogger.  You literally don&#8217;t need anything else.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need a dial-up account. You don&#8217;t need any special software to format html. You don&#8217;t even need to know what html IS.<\/p>\n<p>You can do everything from within the browser.<\/p>\n<p>Both Blogger and Xanga give you free photo storage. While LiveJournal doesn&#8217;t let you save your photos, you can easily use the free <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/\">Flickr<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Photos<\/a> servers to do the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>The trick with blogging is simply to do it. If you can find the motivation to create one entry per week, you&#8217;ll soon find yourself sharing your insights with the world, and creating a community around you.<\/p>\n<p>Happy blogging!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">You can listen to a podcast of today&#8217;s snippet by heading to <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/schmucknews.libsyn.com\/media\/schmucknews\/2005-12-26_Virtual_Surf_Report_--_How_to_Be_a_Blogger.mp3\">http:\/\/schmucknews.libsyn.com<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, 26 December 2005 If you&#8217;re reading this blog, chances are you know what a blog IS. And if you don&#8217;t already HAVE your own blog, you might want to get one, but you might feel a little inhibited. 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