From Mind Boggling To Mind Blogging
THE IDEA of having a WordPress blog has been germinating in the back portion of my mind for quite some time. Why it took so long to start a blog here is due to the fact that I had three other blogs running on the Blogger platform.
I was blogging like there was no tomorrow on those three blogs so much so that I just couldn’t find the time to open a WordPress account.
If you’re curious to know about my three Blogger blogs, here are their screenshots and you can click on the links to pay a visit:
I had to work doubly hard to build up their contents. And it went on for several months before I finally turned my attention to Blogging On My Mind.
I’m still not sure whether the blogging efforts can be sustained. I guess I just have to chug along and see how things develop.
Coming over to WordPress will be a good experience, too. Since I started with Blogger blogs, and having gained some insights into this fascinating world of blogging, I guess I’m better equipped this time, having experienced through trial and error the idiosyncracies of this growing phenomenon called blogging.
Blogging On My Mind will be an extension of my thinking transformed into words on this blog. It will be about my perception of blogging and bloggers. It will project my views on all aspects of the World Wide Web.
As this blog matures overtime, it will be monetized to generate some online income to help maintain the upkeep of this blog. And I’m not blind to the fact that along this Blogosphere trail, there’ll be twists and turns, unexpected changes, and a plethora of new ideas and developments that will come about.
By now, there are probably more than 80 million bloggers around the world and the uptrend, according to experts, will continue unabated with new sites growing exponentially.
In the past two years, traditional companies are discovering the unique power of blogs. The monetization of blogs shows great potential as the momentum picks up with more bloggers hopping on the surfboards to ride the blogging waves for pleasure and profit.
Last year, it was reported that web advertising was expected to increase by 50 percent to USD23.6 billion in 2010. If that came true, we could be sure to see a huge surge of ad dollars landing on blogs.
Magazines, newspapers and other traditional media organizsations are seeing this new “paradigm shift.” The blogs and websites are becoming powerful competitors.
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August 15th, 2007 at 1:24 PM
Interesting post. I shall take note this.
August 18th, 2007 at 9:15 PM
Why not import your Blogger blogs to Word Press?
I did this recently for on of my blogs that had over 11,000 posts to it and I am not looking back. It makes simple things like template changes a LOT easier, not having to “re-publish” the entire site.
August 20th, 2007 at 7:21 AM
> Mike: I’ve been pondering on that for a while. Still couldn’t make up my mind on the right host though. But thanks for the shout-out.
August 31st, 2007 at 12:29 AM
Hey markk thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment.
I too have been thinking of moving to wordpress. I like the new widget style of blogger and am decent at coding so I have quite a few mods to my blogger blog, but still there are features of wordpress that I would like to have. Although word is google is going to be updating blogger in the near future to include a few new options like post scheduling. Which when you think about it really shouldn’t be that hard since in the post options you can put in a future date. All they would need to do is modify that code a bit so that it wouldn’t publish until the date actually arrived.
later all and have a profitable productive blogging day
November 6th, 2008 at 1:39 AM
good article