journaling benefits

how to create a blog

Here.

turn your blog into a book

Access your blog code under "settings" then copy and paste here. Depending on how many images and text you have, and whether you want colour or black and white, the code conversion process could take hours. Once the files are complete you take it to a printer like this one on a USB drive. 

Mountaineer

"Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort."

- Mark Twight as submitted by blog consultant Gary Dek

Image source here.

what bill gates is thinking

http://www.thegatesnotes.com

Image source here.

slow blogging

"[Ms. Ganley] tends to post once or twice a week, but sometimes she can go a month or so without proffering something new."

Article here.

5 Most Overrated Blogs

Time lists them here.

"I don’t get up very early."

How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days here.

50k

Image source here.

According to Arianna Huffington [born 1950], fifty thousand new blogs are started every day. Technorati's top 100 blogs here.

My Type

This image purports to show what parts of my brain were dominant during the writing of this blog.

typealyzer.com  claims to be able to analyze a blog and determine its "type." I submitted this blog and their report is here:

ESTJ - The Guardians

The organizing and efficient type. They are especially attuned to setting goals and managing available resources to get the job done. Once they´ve made up their mind on something, it can be quite difficult to convince otherwise. They listen to hard facts and can have a hard time accepting new or innovative ways of doing things.

The Guardians are often happy working in highly structured work environments where everyone knows the rules of the job. They respect authority and are loyal team players.

Blogging for Dollars

Salon looks at how bloggers make money:

Bloggers create 900,000 blog posts a day worldwide, and some of them are actually making money. Blogs with 100,000 or more unique visitors a month earn an average of $75,000 annually—though that figure is skewed by the small percentage of blogs that make more than $200,000 a year. The estimates from a 2007 Business Week article are older but juicier: The LOLcat empire rakes in $5,600 per month; Overheard in New York gets $8,100 per month; and Perez Hilton, gossip king, scoops up $111,000 per month.

Top 100 Blogs

An updated version of the top 100 blogs here.

Courtesy of Mike Wallagher 

mikew@startbloggingonline.com

Orwell Was A Blogger

George Orwell's diaries are published in blog form on the George Orwell prize website each day 70 years after they were first written, opening up an opportunity to acquaint and reacquaint with Orwell in a very accessible way, offering eyewitness accounts from the 1930s on everything from unemployment, fascism and communism, but also his musings on the natural world.