Several events in my life have set me thinking recently about what one needs to know about blogging in order to actually do it. For one, I’ve been getting ready to teach the Get Blogging! course at the Sacramento Library’s I Street Press, and when I was in LA last week, I spent some time with friends who asked me to explain what blogging is. Finally, the other day I was interviewed for an article on blogging in a seniors’ magazine. The writer asked me if I could recommend a place, other than the I Street Press classes, where people who want to start blogging could go to get some advice.
Hmmmm. Shouldn’t that be something that the Wednesday Writers Workshop does?
It seems to me that to begin to understand blogging, you need to know something of the history behind it. To actually start blogging, however, I think you need to spend some time thinking about what kind of a blog you want to have. There’s a myriad of choices, some tightly focused on a niche and some more general in the scope.
Flowtown created an Infographic that pictures the evolution of the blogosphere as well as some of those genres of bloggers that first inhabited it. The list is by no means complete; in fact, it was created in 2010, and at the speed the internet moves, that’s a long time ago. Still, can you find yourself on their chart? Or would you have to create a new category? Tomorrow I’ll tell you where I am and why knowing what kind of a blogger you are makes a difference to your success.
Jane Gassner
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