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Before I forget …

July 10, 2009 by Chris Garrett

Someone asked me the other day why I write about personal stuff, what is the appeal of diaries, journals, personal blogs, and the like? I have been talking a lot about Posterous and life streams lately so perhaps this is a good opportunity to explain … [Read more…]

Filed Under: Guides Tagged With: blog, journal, personal, Posterous

Personal Blogs Preserve and Shake Our World

August 18, 2008 by Lorelle VanFossen

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
John Gardner, Grendel

We spend a lot of time on the Blog Herald talking about the steps you need to take to convert your blog into a business and run it as one. Rarely do we pay attention to the personal blogger, the ones inspired to share their day-to-day adventures and thoughts with the world. Personal bloggers are important, very important, and they often get little respect.

Blogging started from online journals, diaries with stories from our life shared with others. They evolved to include comments, conversations with others about shared life experiences and memories, learning as we go along our shared paths.

With the push towards turning blogs into businesses, is there still room for the personal blogger, the diary blogger, the journaling writer? The blogger who doesn’t want to make money but wants to tell their story?

I think there is and I hope there will always be.
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Filed Under: Guides Tagged With: dead sea scrolls, family history, genealogy, history, journal, journaling, journals, online journaling, online journals, personal blogging, personal blogs, private blogs, storytelling, telling stories

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