{"id":102,"date":"2006-02-16T20:48:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T01:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2006\/02\/16\/the-ease-of-blogging\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T20:48:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T01:48:12","slug":"the-ease-of-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"The Ease of Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some quality thinking in the shower (my best ideas originate while soaking in hot water). I was reflecting on my blogging experience. Why do I do it? Why do other people do it? Is there an easy way to explain it? I think I figured out the answer to most of these questions. It&#8217;s really quite simple. I submit to you the underlying principles of blogging which I like to call <strong><em>The Ease (E&#8217;s) of Blogging<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Educate<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Entertain<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Emote<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Engage<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Earn<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blogging is as simple as the aforementioned activities. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.wordpress.com\/\">Robert Scoble<\/a> is great at doing all of the above: he blogs as an evangelist (earning his paycheck); Robert educates his readers about Microsoft and technology; in addition he uses his blog to express his opinions which quickly lead to engaging conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Blogs like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/\">Engadget<\/a> are dedicated to educating and entertaining their readers.<\/p>\n<p>People like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avalonstar.com\/\">Bryan Veloso<\/a> are great at entertaining readers.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulstamatiou.com\/\">Paul Stamatiou<\/a> are great at educating readers with both news and tutorial-style posts.<\/p>\n<p>Other personal bloggers, such as myself, frequently emote (<a href=\"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2006\/02\/08\/myspace-ads-suck\/\">MySpace sucks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2006\/02\/14\/msn-search-and-win\/\">Yahoo has no clue<\/a>, etc) and try to engage their readers. I don&#8217;t try to earn a living like some educators (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/\">Darren Rowse<\/a>) but I do try to earn respect and recognition. I&#8217;m also trying to earn the companionship and readership of some of the brightest people on the internet.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Ease of Blogging<\/em> explains why you see thousands of new blogs every day with thousands of posts every second, it&#8217;s just so easy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but what seperates the best bloggers from the rest? We&#8217;re all doing the same things aren&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>[tags]blogging, blogs, bloggers[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some quality thinking in the shower (my best ideas originate while soaking in hot water). I was reflecting on my blogging experience. Why do I do it? Why do other people do it? Is there an easy way to explain it? I think I figured out the answer to most of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-old"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}