Blogging

Off late, whatever I search for on the internet - a recipe or a how-to-do project, very often I land in a blog spot. Fifteen - sixteen years back, creating web pages on sites hosted by tripod, geocities etc. used to be popular. I had one too - pages within dedicated to the penchants in my life - music, painting, writing , cricket and India. It was something special then and links given to a few friends . But for a couple of updates on it with a few pages of 'soft' paintings created in 'CorelDraw', the interest and the page itself were short lived. Not sure until when the page was in existence - or probably it is still out there somewhere but I can find no traces of it.

Back to blogging, somehow I did not feel motivated to blog probably because I thought it takes a lot of time and skill to create one
-Or because there was nothing special about it , every TDH had one and it will need even more skill and effort to make it special ...
-Or because I was afraid it was too open - back then when the search was just restricted to altavista, you could be sure who sees your page; now it is limited only by permuations and combinations of the search results which makes it really mind boggling to imagine who is reading your page and what the repercussions could be. That too for a person who refrains from signing up to face book seeing it as a loss of privacy.
-Or because I thought what you write needs to be useful to the reader - not just pages off your personal diary and I did not have any substance ready for that.

But today something propelled me to do it - I watched the Tamil movie 'Raavanan' with a fresh mind - had overheard no review. Liked it so much and want to post a review on it.

And now everything seems to have fallen in place and all the above justified...
- All it takes is two minutes, gmail/google account and a phone (to receive text msg) to create a blog
- Log in to www.blogger.com (Note: blogger and blog-spot are the same).
- click on create blog, provide name, password and DOB ( changed!!)
- check availability of the name you like
- choose a template
- view blog
- click on new post
...so far and have started typing now. I would guess no hurdles to cross further also.
--Check out http://www.ehow.com/video_4774531_create-blog.html

- All bloggers want it to be open and their articles to be read (badly so!!)
- there need not be anything special or 'useful' always. If you like reading something say, an experience, there are many more like you who would be also interested in reading that they could relate to. And blog spots are full of experiences. Take for example the movie 'Julia vs. Julia' which was all about cooking for blogging or blogging for cooking.

In short, to do anything big or small, what counts the most is the passion to do it !!