43 Folders post on blogging ideas and thoughts

In my previous post, I explained how I described what professional idea blogs (and are not) to my colleagues. Merlin Mann at 43 Folders has a nice post on Blogs: Watching passionate thoughts evolve (in public). In it he, offers a nice description of a new-blogger’s experience, and this advice to bloggers:

“Remember that your blog is only incidentally a publishing system or a public website. At its heart, your blog represents the evolving expression of your most passionately held ideas. It’s a conversation you’re holding up with the world and with yourself — a place where you can watch your own thoughts take different shapes and occasionally surprise you with where they end up…”

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    [...] found myself thinking a lot about (and mentioning to my colleagues in our discussion) the Merlin Mann’s quote that I have referenced here before, in which he describes a blog as “only incidentally a publishing system…At its heart, [...]

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