Blogging Helps
May. 31, 2005 at 1:29 PM
Blogging
I have been reading blogs for about 2 years. But I only began my blog less than 6 months ago. I am still learning alot. There is one resource I would recommend to any new blogger and that is the book BLOG by Hugh Hewitt. (It is a great book to have your teen read before they begin blogging. Mine did.) Some of you may recognize him as a radio talk host. He is the one of the first bloggers I started reading. His resources and information were great during the past election. He is a Christian and an excellent writer, blogger, and lawyer. The book talks about the history of blogging and its potential for business and personal use. It's amazing that a medium that has only been in existence for a few years has such a history. The book is easy to read (I read it in an evening) and is packed with great information.
There is also a piece on blogging in todays Wall Street Journal (reg. req'd) by Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit called We the (Media) People. Mr. Reynolds is a popular blogger with a huge audience. Here's a peek at what he wrote.
Quite a few bloggers are moving beyond opinion journalism into firsthand reporting. On my own InstaPundit.com weblog, I feature firsthand reports, often with photos, from places like Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. My "correspondents" are correspondents in the original sense -- people who correspond -- rather than in the modern sense of people with good hair and a microphone. Other bloggers have broken stories from Iraq (involving both alleged war crimes by U.S. troops and large anti-terror marches left uncovered by American media), from the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, and from Canada's government corruption scandals.
He goes then helps to coin a new term called "we-dia" as a replacement for "MEdia". It's worth reading.
If you would like to meet some homeschool blogger who have been at this a while, you can visit the Online Homeschool Convention that I hosted a few months back on my other blog. There's lots of different blogs from a variety of perspectives. (Disclaimer: I don't endorse any of these blogs but suggest them only as a possible resource.)
Happy Blogging
3 Comments and Trackbacks
posted by TOSPUBLISHER on May. 31, 2005 at 2:02 PM
Wow, I love all this information. Just ordered the book, too. On my way to read the article you mentioned. You are a goldmine of information. Thank you, Spunky!
-gena
posted by tn3jcarter on May. 31, 2005 at 6:56 PM
You & your family of bloggers are famous. I do wonder how you all share the computer time. Thanks for all of the info about blogging. We don't have TV so I miss out on some of the latest news.
Blessings,
Nancy
posted by EmptyNestMom on Jun. 1, 2005 at 9:27 AM
Thanks for this info Spunky! I am new at this and don't really know what I'm doing. I am going to get that book!