Reasons for blog creation & blog managing

[shootingstar]

Somehow I can't find personal energy and drive to do my own blog. I abandoned keeping a journal of any sort over a decade ago. Last time it was a cycling journal.

For those enthusiastic blog-creators and blog-masters on any topic(s), your main reason for creating and running your own blog:

[LBTC]

Well, my blog is a bit different. I use it to post my picture a day with a quote - the same thing as on my FlickR page. I get rare comments here and there, and seldom respond. Any time I have for responding on line to others I do right here.

Now, wouldn't it be interesting to read one TE'ers posts from all threads in one place....like a blog? hmmmmm

H&B
~T~

[NbyNW]

I kept a travel blog a couple years ago, which turned into an injury blog. It was actually a great way to stay in touch with friends and family who wanted to know what I was going through but weren't able to personally check in with me because of geography.

[shootingstar]

Now, wouldn't it be interesting to read one TE'ers posts from all threads in one place....like a blog? hmmmmm

H&B
~T~

would be pretty wild...like disconnected or happily serendiptous little TE worlds all over the place. I do believe that on some days, there's 1-3 of us here that each engage in an action (not just cycling) that has some connection without our knowledge, to another person's action of that same day.

[LBTC]

I do believe that on some days, there's 1-3 of us here that each engage in an action (not just cycling) that has some connection without our knowledge, to another person's action of that same day.

Neat idea, and probably oh so true. We rarely know the ways that our actions connect with others. Would we want to?

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[tulip]

I think it would be kinda neat to have a blog for no other reason than to keep my thoughts and photos and links in one place. But I certainly don't have the time to deal with a blog. I started one for my work a few months ago, but I've been too busy to deal with it.

I'd rather be on my bike or in my (future) garden, or just reading a book.

[Veronica]

We don't think of our website as a blog. For us it's a place to put pictures and write about the event surrounding the pictures. Our families are both back east and it's just a way of staying in touch.

I do enjoy writing though.

V.

[Geonz]

I like the ongoing nature of a blog - and have kept mine up 'cause there are people who read it I keep telling myself that if I were more consistent with my educational blog, people would read that too, but it hasn't happened yet.
I also like setting up a Google automatic search for terms, which is how my blog got found its first day and got a comment (totally floored me!). When I was shopping for a Dahon I put that in and then added Xtracycle. So now I get a couple links a day to people who've said that in a blog somehwere, so I can return the favor of saying "hi! you go dude!" from out of the blue.

[SouthernBelle]

I started mine as a record of my cycling all in one place that I could refer to later.

My little cycling history.

There are 2 or 3 people that cycle from places other than TE that read it to keep up with me and I read theirs.

[Kimmyt]

As a way that my family can stay informed of what I'm doing. And also so I don't bore people by droning on and on about training. If they want to read it, they can, if not... shrug. It's also a good way to be accountable. I used to find writing really therapeutic as well, but haven't had enough free time to really get back into it with my blog.

[OakLeaf]

Mostly DH and I just post links to news stories that we want to make sure our friends see. Once in a great while we'll post some commentary.

[kelownagirl]

I have had a couple of blogs which I started as a record of my thoughts and experiences in weight loss at first, then cycling, and now triathlon training. Sometimes when someone would ask me about something I had already blogged about, I would just point them to the blog. Eventually, people started reading it. It's not important to me that people read it because it's mainly for my me, but it's nice to get comments once in awhile. I would imagine that to most people, my blog is just a boring commentary about my training (my family says so, lol), but I guess if you're in a similar situation, it's nice to see someone's else's experiences. I enjoy reading people's blogs and keep up with a number of them.

[mimitabby]

I saw no good reason to have a blog until i saw how handy they were for displaying art. An easy interface and a nice format.

And because of the way the blogs are set up, you might have visitors unexpectedly.


http://mimitabby.blogspot.com

[Sheesh]

I started blogging because my students were blogging. It was a good way to keep up on the goings-on in their lives, and because they started visiting my blog, I was able to advertise events and programs that I wanted them to know about.

Then, as those students graduated, I kept blogging as a way of staying in touch with them, and others in the cyber world.

I recently started a new blog that I'll use for commenting on other cycling blogs and for pimping out the photos that I take at local races. I didn't want to widely share my other blog, so I started a new one.

velosnaps.wordpress.com

[Pedal Wench]

I blog. It's my job.

http://bitstream.soundandvisionmag.com/

Yup. A paid blogger.