Blog Lane

Blogging is a way of communicating to the world pretty much anything.  While there are a lot of things that seem like blogging I like to think of blogging as simply a method of self(or group) publishing.  Not much more than that but even that is a mouthful.

Blogging usually uses a blogging platform (e.g Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad) but can also be done with static HTML or some other method.  The benefits to using a blogging platform is that things are organized and syndicated rather quickly and without much fuss on your part.

Some people might feel that using twitter and similar services is a kind of blogging but I like to call that micro-blogging as it’s not really designed to communicate more than a single simple thought (e.g. I ate at McDonald’s) while  blogging allows you to explore subjects a bit more.  (e.g. McDonald’s has the best french fries. )

While blogging may seem like publishing newsletter.  Unlike a newsletter I think that a blog post should only cover one topic at a time unlike a newsletter which can cover multiple topics.  Short concise and on topic is what a blog post should be.

The subject of each blog post can be pretty much anything.  As blogging is so simple and easy the cost of a post is next to nothing outside of your time and effort so that the subjects can be a wider range then if you were limited by printing and mailing costs (i.e. magazines, newspapers).