I’m a bloggish person. I read blogs, I comment occasionally and I contribute to a variety of blogs. But I don’t have one site that I post to regularly. I may not be a “blogger” my most definitions but I do think I blog. In this series of post I’m going to explain why.
Blogging is reading blogs. I have a news reader where I subscribe to blogs. Lots of them, in fact. I’m not religious about reading them. Somedays I read a lot, some weeks I don’t check at all. (I work part-time and being a mom doesn’t always allow for full engagement online.) But if I had to go figure out what to read everytime I went online I’d be paralyzed by choice. Instead I have my subscriptions that range from professionally relevant to personal interests to people I’m just interested in.
Advice: get a news reader and subscribe to some blogs:
Google describes their news reader as “your inbox for the web.” This is a fun vid that makes the case for using a RSS or new or feed reader (no diff!) I’d recommend Google Reader, Bloglines as a web-based reader, or Blogbridge for a more power.
How do you find blogs you’re interested in? Well you can start with my list of careers blogs or my edublogger subscriptions and go from there. Most people who blog have a blogroll of people they read and link to regularly somewhere in their sidebar. If you find a blogger you like, check out who they like. It’s just like how you make friends.
You can also use google’s blog search tool and try random keywords. There are career bloggers but not many (any) blogging from a student service perspective.
