How I Blog: Sarah Falcon

July 31, 2006 | By Matt Craven | Filed Under How I Blog

This is the 32nd post in our “How I Blog” series. To read the rest, visit the archives. Interested in participating? Drop us a note about ‘How I Blog’ along with a photo or yourself or your blogging space at tips [at] blogmedia [dot] biz.

Sarah Falcon, Blogger

Sarah Falcon

Dangerously. I’m an early morning worker/blogger. When I’m feeling really brave, I’ll blog after my double-expresso, shot of milk, dash of cinnamon coffee. That’s usually when the post-modernism references/bad jokes come in.

I blog almost every day, taking breathers to let readers and myself get to miss me. I write the way I used to in college â€“ type first, edit later. I loved writing papers in college (I know, itâ€™s ridiculous), and I still throw in some entries that are written like academic papers. I block quote longer passages, and bracket off word changes and editing. I still would love to footnote and have a really long bibliography at the end but itâ€™s a different medium, and I can respect that.

Side note: To make things worse, or more interesting, Iâ€™ve just integrated flickr to the blog, which meant this morning at 7:30 I was photographing my reflection in the computer screen.

About half of the blog is whatâ€™s going on at Spreadshirt which is growing faster than I can type. About 10% is presentation of t-shirts shops that seem particularly poignant â€“ i.e. important (like one raising money for breast cancer) or topical (like soccer â€“ Iâ€™m in Europe). 10% is blogculture/web 2.0 news. The patience-requiring remaining 30% is purely what interests or amuses me (philosophising on â€œnobless obligeâ€?, t-shirt responses to news headlines, the band â€œman or astromanâ€?).

I love this stuff. From the figuring out how to present information in a way that is clear and hopefully entertaining, to getting to wax blogic on whatever turns me on or off. That there is a value to doing this at all, at least in the eyes of my employers and readers, still surprises me. And makes me feel totally lucky.

Sarah blogs at Spreadblog.

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About the author: Matt Craven is the former editor & publisher of The Blog Herald. Currently, Matt is the co-founder of Bryghtpath LLC, a boutique web 2.0 firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He blogs at Telegraphik & The Blog Herald. You can follow him on Twitter.

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The Spreadshirt Blog for Shop Partners » Blog Archive » How did they know? on August 7th, 2006 5:33 am

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