Bloggers corner

Hello bloggers (said loud with Dame Edna accent)!!! This blog is well over one year old now. So to all those who said it wouldn't last six months I would like to say a very sincere bollocks. Course it may not last another month but that's beside the point. So what have we learned from this little venture?

Well one thing has become painfully obvious...blogging is a thankless task. Bloggers have to provide their own stimulation. That's OK. We're a hardy breed and there are some compensating factors. One gets to ramble on about esoteric subjects without interruption. One makes a few cyber chums. One ends up with a load of notes, links, jpegs etc. that may come in handy one day should one ever get round to writing something more substantial.

Does one have any tips for would-be bloggers? Yes and no. I've made a few observations about blogging along the way, some amazingly perceptive, some less so. You can wade through the archives if you're really interested.

The reason I mention it now is by way of offering a bit of free advice to anyone who's thinking of starting a blog. I'm sure there are lots of potential young bloggers out there waiting to take the plunge. All kinds of questions are racing through your brains I know. Will anybody read the blog if I do get it up and running? Can I keep it going more than a couple of weeks? Will people laugh or make rude comments? What if my parents find out? Stuff like that.

Well bloglings perhaps I can help you get started and save you some heartache. The best time for blogging is late at night when you are tired and your mind isn't working very well. It also helps to be drunk...but not too drunk. You might not like reading through what you wrote next morning. Of course you can edit it but that would offend the God of Blogging Spontanaiety...don't get me started on him/her.

What, I hear you ask, if I am not a naturally gifted writer? Well, I hear myself respond, don't worry about it. Just go for it. If blogging doesn't work out you can always try something else, shoplifting women's underwear for instance, or skydiving. One word of caution...don't ever start a blog if you're the sensitive type. You'll go nuts. And don't even think about blogging if you have a short fuse or a weak ticker. You wouldn't believe some of the crap I have to put up with. One bloke tells me I talk rubbish and another bloke keeps telling me I should write more and post more often! Can you believe it? And another fellow keeps accusing me of being 4 or 5 other people!! The nerve! Just remember, as Edith would say, it takes all kinds.



So have fun with your blog and don't take it too seriously.

What about spam Dick? Oh yes spam. You'll get lots of that. Very boring. You can recognize it because it comes disguised as comments telling you what a great blog you have. Of course you know better. You'll also learn more about Viagra than you ever needed to know.

Risky stuff is best left to extreme bloggers but as you gain confidence you may want to try getting into all sorts of pointless arguments with anonymous strangers. Be careful here. Some of them get touchy. You may even get death threats so keep that 'delete' option handy. It used to bother me when I started but I've got used to it. Nowadays I just laugh it off good naturedly...it's just water off a duck's back to quote Edith again. To me anyway.



Well that's it for now from blogger's corner but before I log-off here's a useful little check-list I found...guess where? infosential.com of course.