Balajhi here has made a great post about Prof Samuelson- it is short, to the point- and above all, it is interesting and informative.
I know Balajhi as someone who is passionate about economics, finance and management- this is an area in which he has working experience, and obviously, he has much to say about it.
So, to take a test case- because I can't do this 'about-blogging' business in the abstract - I will take Balajhi (hope he does not bristle at this) and discuss how it makes sense for him to make a blog - or two, or more- the focus of his presence on the web.
Most of us use the web to make queries, book tickets, send a mail or two- we all do that, and I don't think we need to blog about it, though we can, and we should if we think we have something useful / entertaining to say.
For example, I can make a blog of this:
"Are you a blogger? : There is this great search engine that gives you information that is useful to you: Check out this blog search I made for TCWJ at Icerocket"
"I had to help out my son with his math homework. As you probably know, I am a total idiot with that. However there is this Search Engine Wolfram Alpha that lets you cheat him into believing you are some kind of genius- take a look at a math solution I found: 100 * 1000 equals what "
I am sure you'll agree these things are worth blogging about.
But we don't. We bookmark these sites, or make them as favorites, and that's it.
I don't know why it should stay that way. What's wrong if you make a blog of it and share it with your friends?
When you make a blog of this- remember: you are creating a bookmark in your blog, plus share it.
That is the point of it: a blog is a place where you save and share interesting and informative things.
It might be pictures, videos, or a link to a e-book. Whatever.
Just make a habit of blogging about that. Simple, and useful. If Balajhi creates a management blog, and shares the ideas out of his head, and the info/ interesting stuff he found on the net, at one stroke- he has a bookmarking site, and also a place from which he can talk to and talk with like-minded people.
What this does is, a community of sort accrues around the blog.
I think this is enough for now.
Just two things.
If you are blogging at Blogger, it is useful to have the Blog This bookmarklet on your browser- you can find it here at Blogger Help. Or better still, make use of the Google Toolbar- with Firefox or otherwise. Information on how you can share from the Google Toolbar is here at The Official Google Blog.
Hope to continue with this.
But though, some kind of feedback would help.
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