Personal blogs are a tricky business; while they're great for blowing off steam or having a creative outlet, not everyone is comfortable sharing that much about themselves. But sometimes you want to be so personal, and if most of your life can be handled at your computer screen, why shouldn't you be able to record your deepest thoughts?
Diary is the answer - set up like a blog, with all the options to upload pictures, galleries, videos, and most importantly, your innermost thoughts - but it's all private, just for you.
Typed comments have a major drawback — they really lack the tone you're going for. Sure, you have CAPS LOCK and italics to emphasize something, but you can never really get across what you would like to say the way you can with your voice, right? Well, then, say it with your voice with
WagWire!
Website of the Day: TotSpot geeksugar reviews TotSpot, a secure and safe user-friendly site that allows parents to create a private page about their kids. With this page you can post videos, photos, and journal entries to share "privately" with family and friends.
So you've decided to
create a website to share stories and photos of your child. Now what? After you spend some time deciding if you should
purchase a specific domain name and who you expect will read the site it's time to start writing!
If you're considering
starting a blog to chronicle your family's growth I suggest you begin by spending a little time thinking about what you want to share and how you will go about doing it.
- Decide what you want to share and where you will share it.
The first thing you have to do is decide what kind of details and stories you want to share and if you want the site to be password protected or open to the whole world wide web.
No, Plurking is nothing like Twerking.
Plurk is like the less popular, slightly reserved cousin of
Twitter. The creators claim they have "taken the time, the complexity, and the deep introspection required out of blogging," which translates into a platform designed for one liners and random updates.
Twenty-first century moms are faced with a new Hamletian dilemma: to blog or not to blog?
As soon as that stick shows a positive parents start planning, taking notes and trying to capture memories of the exciting milestone moments. Many have traded in the baby books of yesteryear for websites and blogs
dedicated to their pregnancy, childbirth and
baby or family photos.
I remember the days when starting your own blog was a rarity, and for the few people that were early adopters, they gave their new "website" all the TLC it deserved. Nowadays, starting a blog is like signing up for another email account or social network, been there, done that. Why have one, when you can have four, right?
Maybe Chris Noth
was right — maybe technology is hurting our chances of finding true love. It's definitely hurting a girl's reputation, as Curbed SF found with this San Francisco-based
telephone-pole plasterer. She felt the need to tell her potential dates a new don't:
"Don't blog about me!"
A few weeks ago, I
asked you if any of you were bloggers, and like I thought, a whole lot of you are and you responded enthusiastically about your blogs. Now I'm interested in the more nitty-gritty aspects — no, not
what you're blogging about, but where!
Specifically, on which platform?
