| Do your friends and coworkers turn to you for | | | | bad blogs. But not all blogs are filled with relentless |
| fashion advice? Are you a bonafide guru when it | | | | rants and whining that was meant to be witty. |
| comes to the hottest designers and trends? Or, | | | | Blogs are a great way to connect with |
| maybe you're a would-be political pundit-the next | | | | like-minded-or not so like-minded-people, exchange |
| Walter Cronkite? You could simply have a riveting | | | | tips and ideas, and promote services, products, |
| way of capturing the world around you. Whatever | | | | projects and events. If you're an artist or budding |
| your talent, rant or position, you can share your | | | | fashion designer, you can gain exposure for your |
| inner most thoughts in a place called the | | | | work through an artist blog or fashion blog. Some |
| "blogosphere"-all you need is an Internet | | | | bloggers even have "fans" and sell merchandise |
| connection. | | | | like t-shirts and bumper stickers imprinted with |
| To the uninitiated, a blog is a personal website | | | | their blog site. Many companies also have jumped |
| that is updated frequently by the author and | | | | on the blog bandwagon to promote themselves |
| typically consists of commentary and favorite | | | | and offer useful information to their customers. |
| links, as well as photos, or anything else really. | | | | Some of the best blogs are from regular people |
| There are essentially two rules to blogging: 1.) | | | | living ordinary lives. |
| update your site at least every 48 hours and 2.) | | | | If you don't have the time or the motivation to |
| make the content somewhat compelling. It seems | | | | start your own, you don't have to miss out on |
| like everyone has a blog nowadays; even William | | | | blog-o-mania. Many people enjoy reading other |
| Shatner and Mariah Carey have one. I mean, | | | | people's blogs to engage in political discourse or |
| everyone's story is unique, right? And since you | | | | learn about subjects they are interested in and to |
| don't need to know HTML, FTP or graphic design | | | | keep informed about what's going on in a |
| to create and maintain a weblog, it's pretty much | | | | particular city. Food blogs are very popular. Find |
| fair game for all. Blog hosting sites, such as Radio | | | | out-or share-cooking tips and recipes. Get in a |
| Userland ( ), Blogstream ( ), squarespace ( ) and | | | | good laugh or catch up on celebrity gossip with |
| Blogger.com, provide software for easy updating | | | | humor blogs and celebrity gossip blogs, or blogs |
| of your blog-just download and you're ready to | | | | hosted by celebrities themselves. |
| start blogging. | | | | So, if you have an idea for a blog, don't be shy. |
| Since there are literally hundreds of thousands of | | | | There's bound to be an existing category for |
| blogs, with millions of words blasted into | | | | your blog-and if there's not, you can create your |
| cyberspace every minute, inevitably there are | | | | own. |