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Over the last few weeks, I've found myself pushing my acquaintances and business partners to open up their own personal site and start blogging. Besides being easily affordable, blogging is also personally rewarding. Not only can a blogger quickly develop his/her own writing skills, but the blogger will quickly notice his/her own style emerge. And that diversity of journalistic style is largely what makes blog surfing so popular in recent years.
Go ahead and munch on any blog list or blog directory, such as www.blogcritics.com, and you'll quickly notice a breadth of blogging style, from casual unedited diaries in broken English, from highly-censored syndicated columns by professional businesspeople, to freeform opinionated political rants! My personal style emerged only weeks after I began blogging, and I best describe my style as semimonthly installments. If you notice, I don't really dump daily events into my blog in diary format, but rather I choose a topic every few weeks or so and write about it. Starting next week, I plan to add a blog entry every few days, so either my own format will evolve, or I will start a separate category to keep these daily pushes apart from my topical entries. And since you're reading this, take a second and imagine what your personal blog style would be like, even if you're not blogging yet. Would yours be like a flowing romance novel? Or a visual display of pictures with captions? Or how about a gossip dumpster with everyone and their mother talking smack about the antagonists in their lives? Hmmmm!
By now, you can probably ascertain my message today, and you are right. Unite! I want you (and every one of you) to start blogging! It's cheap, fun, and VERY rewarding, and you can trust all of us veteran bloggers on this one. Do not be afraid to crack your shell and expose yourself to the world. You will project your individuality and confidence (and sexiness!) in a way you probably never have before, and you will be heard around the world with no one to muffle your way of thinking.
Since I offer web hosting, I have made it particularly easy for new bloggers to buy web space and start blogging by letting each one choose the blog software that best suits them. This blog that you're reading now uses a large chunk of PHP-Nuke code that I modified heavily to accommodate my blog style. It still needs work, and I really don't recommend using PHP-Nuke for blogging. But I happened to like a few of the template designs and admin features, so I stuck with this open-source monster and just tamed it a bit. But I accommodate any blog software that a blogger requires, as I take a personal interest in seeing writers express themselves, many for the first time!
The following partial list of blog software will help you fathom the size of this budding community. Remember that this list consists of server-side software for hosted blog sites, which doesn't include huge blog sites like Blogger or TypePad, where you create a drone account then quickly get lost in the March of the Blogging Zombies.
Blog Software
PHP-Nuke
Movable Type
Geeklog
Nucleus
Serendipity
bBlog
WordPress
GreyMatter (not GrayMatter!!!)
Most of these blog solutions are PHP based and run a MySQL database. As long as you host with me, you'll be able to use all of these products, and you also have my full support! So don't go unheard and unpublished any longer. Join us bloggers and reveal your true creative self!
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