On January 17, 1998, a blogger by the name of Matt Drudge was sitting in his apartment in Bel-Aire, California when he broke the biggest news story of the decade on his blog. (Drudge Report). He scooped the major news services and went on to become the most successful blogger in history. Back then, in 1998, few had heard of the Internet much less knew what a blog was. So, it was easier for bloggers like Drudge to be hugely successful.
Today, ten-years-later, (2008) there are millions of blogs and bloggers. Every housewife in America blogs and most twenty-something females have their own sex web cam site. The problem today is getting people to read your blog or visit your site. With so many blogs and blog services, it’s hard to get people to read your blog unless you spend a great deal of time promoting your own blog. Which I just don;t have time to do with all the books.
Nevertheless, I will continue to blog.
WordPress.com is one of the better blogs. They give you the tools that a lot of other blog sites do not give you. I had another blog on another site for six months. I write mostly about politics and entertainment. IN all that time, only one girl accessed my blog and only, because in an entertainment piece, I used the tag Ben Affleck. She didn’t read my blog- she was only interested in reading about Ben Affleck. The blog wasn’t about him.
As a retired newspaper journalist, columnist, film-critic, editor and the author of nine books, I write adventure books which have journalism under-pinnings. To keep my journalism skills razor sharp- is why I will continue to blog. And … for that day when I receive a comment which states, “That was a truly great article about such and such.”
Kilburn Hall
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