The Computer Zone

Every Sunday I sit down in a comfortable chair and brainstorm ideas for things to write about in this blog. I do this as part of my blogging schedule and it helps me post every day. A few weeks ago while I was braining storming I came up with a devious plan, the plan was to ask bloggers around the blogosphere why they started blogging. I thought it was a great idea because it meant I didn’t have to write as much and it was a great way to interact with the blogging community. Without further adieu here are there responses

Daniel Scocco from DailyBlogTips wrote:

I started blogging as a hobby. At the time I was doing a lot of research for my degree thesis, and I thought: “Why not share all that information on the Internet?”

At the worst of the scenarios no one would read my stuff but I would have an online place to store them electronically. Luckily some people did read it, and it motivated me to launch other blogs subsequently.

Lorna Timbah from WebGrrrl.net wrote:

I have a few reasons why I started blogging. However, my main reason for having a blog is to create a place as a bookmark to self. Back in 1998-9, I didn’t know what to do with all the fun and fantastic e-mails I get as well as amazing sites I’ve been through, and wanted some place to store it. I didn’t trust my browser’s Bookmark function because I had a knack of reformatting my computer every other month.

I ended up creating a manually updated, sort-of-a blog called Doodads which I still have (but left stagnant) in my personal Tripod web site. In 2002, I used Blogger to update the same site. When I decided to get my personal domain, I
chose a ready-to-go platform in my Fantastico option (WordPress) even before I consciously decided to “start blogging”. I didn’t realize my effort almost 10 years ago can be considered blogging until I’ve been doing so for a couple of months.

Ben Cook of Blogging Experiment wrote:

Basically I started blogging because I like an audience. I am a very opinionated person and feel like I have a lot to share. Blogging allows me to share what I have to say with more people than I could ever imagine. To think that 10,000 read an article when it hits the front page of Digg or sites like that is astounding to me. So basically, I started blogging because I needed a megaphone. I started BloggingExperiment because I had seen so many people making so much money through their blogs. I wanted to see if a “regular” guy could do the same thing starting from scratch.

Caroline Middlebrook wrote:

Just a few weeks ago I was working at a 9-5 day job which I liked, but didn’t give me the long term satisfaction that I knew I needed. I quit that day job so that I could devote my life to following my dreams. Really, the blog was started as a way of recording my journey. See unlike most sensible people, I had no secondary income, no savings and no master plan! I just thought “what the heck?” and took a massive risk.

I know there are tons of people out there who are trapped in day jobs that they don’t want to do and they’d love to just quit and work for themselves. With my blog I am showing people step by step what I am doing to make some money online. Hopefully I’ll be successful at that which will inspire other people to do the same.

Matthew from Blog About Your Blog wrote:

I started blogging because I was looking to earn money online, so I didn’t have to get a “real job”. A friend of mine earned money different ways online and recommended it. I started with blogging about fantasy football and soon developed the idea of Blog about your Blog.

Henry Legge wrote:

Well I started blogging because I read connor’s blog and thought hmm thats what I’m going to change my portfolio into. I originaly planned it to be a portfolio for me (still is) but I decided to add a blog to it. I am fairly new to the blogging background, but I plan to become a good blogger.

Matt Huggins wrote:

I created MattHuggins.com with the intention of writing about my efforts as an Internet entrepreneur. I always seem to be working on web projects, and I wanted to share my progress.

My blog has since grown to include informative articles not only on my projects and programming, but also on the topics of blogging, marketing, advertising, SEO, networking, and most recently Facebook. Much of the content comes back to the overall goal of making money online, which has been my intention from the start in documenting my programming efforts.

Tony Targonski from CompSci.ca wrote:

I’ve started my blog as a supplement to the compsci.ca community. There are completely different dynamics to blogs than there are to forums. I wanted a medium that would let me express myself, my thoughts, and my knowledge in an organized and presentable matter. I think since then, the blog has grown to be so much more, and it has gathered its own following.

Randy from GrownUpGeek wrote:

I started blogging primarily as an SEO tool for building a few deep-links into my website, GrownUpGeek.com. After approximately one-year I started treating the blog like a blog but still did not put much time or effort into it. Beginning in approximately July 2007 I dedicated myself to turning my blog into a “real” blog with the theme of “how I did it” as it relates to my success at GrownUPGeek.com.

Neil Duckett wrote:

I guess the main reason I started a personal blog was to communicate with friends back home in Australia. I wanted to avoid a group email every few weeks which would then promote replies i had to respond to. I find it easy to write my thoughts and messages down on a site and let people visit from time to time.

The answers from all of the bloggers are very diverse, it’s interesting to see the different ways people started blogging. I have personally started blogging because of my friend Alex from Sanctified Studios. He was writing flash tutorials and I decided that I wanted to write C programming tutorials. From that spawned the blog that you’re at today. I guess I’m kind of like Ben, I enjoy having people listen to what I have to say and I like it when people read stuff that I write.

Feel free to write down your own comments on why you started blogging.

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