Why I <3 Blogging

February 12, 2009

This post is part of our I Love Blogging Valentine's Day celebration.

When I first started writing on the web, (on Tripod, then Geocities) it was almost a revolutionary moment. I've always loved to write, and so I posted some of my awful angsty poetry. Seeing my own work reflected back at me on the screen gave me a new sense of "I really just MADE that".

My writing no longer just sat in a spiral notebook.

I didn't really see what I did as "blogging", per se, until I started writing about my own life from a first-person perspective, which was coincidentally on Blogger, sometime in 2002. I liked that the very name of the product told me who I was. I was a blogger! I can blog! There was a name for all the noodly typing I'd been doing on the internet. I started reading some great blogs. Pamie, Anil Dash, Dooce, Tomato Nation, and Balk's The Minor Fall, The Major Lift.

When I started working at Six Apart in 2004, I moved my blog to TypePad. Ah HA, I thought, now I can actually -play- with this blog of mine. I started tinkering around with TypeLists, the most popular of which was a revolving list of "things my dog has eaten". (included: a box of red oolong tea, 12 marshmallow peeps, 4 pairs of cute shoes.)

I could alter my design the way I liked. I could be proud of my blog for how it looked not just to me, but to the world.

I've deleted whole sections. I've rewritten bits. I've password-protected it when I wanted more privacy, and left other pieces of my interior life elsewhere.

I'm so proud to be TypePad's community manager because I really love blogging. I'm certain that blogging has changed the world. My blog is my home in so many ways. Thank you for letting me tell you why I love it so.

My cheers to you all for always being the best community. I'm proud to be part of it.

Your turn: Tell us why do you love blogging?

Here's how:

Step 1 - Write a post about why you love blogging.

It can be a list of what you love, a story connected to your blog, a person you met through blogging, an opportunity that came your way... anything!

Step 2 - Add a badge and link it to the I Love Blogging post:

Right-click and Save As... (Mac users Ctrl + click, Save as...)

URL for the post is http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2009/02/i-love-blogging.html

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Step 3 - Tag 5 Friends

At the end of the post, tag five fellow bloggers to write their own 'I Love Blogging' posts.

Step 4 - Let Us Know!

Let us know about your post so we can link to it - post your link in the comments on the I Love Blogging post.

Alright!

Ginevra writes the blog N-Judah Love Song as well as on her Vox. She likes Twitter for the rapid delivery of a bon mot when no one is around to joke with. She lives out of a suitcase between Boston and San Francisco, and works for Six Apart as the Community Manager for TypePad and editrix of Everything TypePad.