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+Episode: 1667
+Title: HPR1667: How to start a Blog
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1667/hpr1667.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-18 06:39:07
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+Its Tuesday 23rd of December 2014, this is HPR Episode 1667 entitled How To Start A Blog.
+It is hosted by First Time Host Reel and is about 13 minutes long.
+Feedback can be sent to JFA at lijafa.net or by leaving a comment on this episode.
+The summary is, How To Start A Blog and Why You Might Want To.
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+Hey, this is Reel.
+I am recording my first hacker public radio podcast, although I have done many podcasts
+in the past.
+My topic today is How To Start A Blog, which was one of the suggested topics.
+I'm not quite sure what the person who suggested this project had in mind, but here's what
+I'm going to do with it.
+I am going to assume that the hacker public radio public basically can figure out how
+to go online and use one of the blogger style services, such as blogger, live journal,
+or WordPress.
+I am also going to assume, I hope correctly, that anyone listening to this podcast would
+be able to install WordPress or another type of blogging feature on their website.
+I know Drupal has an option for a blog, and Nicola has been covered previously on
+hacker public radio.
+So getting all the mechanics out of the way of actually having a place to blog, what
+about a blog, what sort of things might you want to think about?
+The first for some people might be what does it look like?
+And so you would spend some time thinking about templates, color, how you want things organized,
+what sort of side bars you might want, what there might be in them, and so forth and
+so on.
+As a blind person, I basically stick with text and try to make the blog as simple as possible.
+This might not be visually attractive, but I find it works for me because the page is
+very simple.
+The most important thing, though, is what I want to talk about today, and this is perhaps
+philosophical in nature, which is why do you want to blog in the first place?
+What's your goal here?
+What do you want to do with this idea of blogging?
+If you've spent any time at all on the internet, which I again assume we all have, we gain
+lots of information from blogs.
+We put in a search term, we find there's an answer, we look up the page, and the answer
+is a post.
+Someone has written to describe how they have done one thing or another.
+And if we look at that page a little bit, we can find out that there are recent posts
+or look at the last post or see that the blog item has been categorized.
+And we can see other information, other how-to posts.
+That's one way to set up a blog, the share what I know blog.
+Other blogs can be pictorial in nature.
+They could be specific to a particular activity you do.
+You might have a fish blog where you talk about eating fish, talk about repairing fish,
+talk about catching fish, talk about raising fish.
+Things to do with fish, fish, tackle, bait, rods, reels, casting, and so forth, how
+to fish.
+They could be about your life.
+They could be a specific part of your life.
+Here's a blog about the vacation I took.
+We went skiing and I will tell you about our ski trip to Utah and where we stayed, what
+we ate, what shops we visited, and what we thought of the place where we skied, where
+they can be generally about your life.
+Were you post randomly about things you think about, things you do.
+The topic of your blog isn't the only thing to think about why you want to start a blog.
+It may be what you expect to accomplish from starting a blog and maintaining a blog.
+Are you intending to keep this as, more or less, your own record?
+It's public, other people can look at it, but you're not really interested in page views.
+You're not trying to leverage anything from this.
+It's for your own pleasure and satisfaction.
+It may simply be a way to keep your own notes on projects, post your own photos about
+a trip, make some comments, and have it available to look back on and to share with some friends.
+I once heard a statistic and it was about live journal, I think, and it could have been
+a decade ago, that said most blogs are seen by six people.
+And of those six people, most of them were relatives or close friends.
+The internet as a whole did not read most blogs.
+However, some people use their blogs to get to be known for something.
+They're the go-to blog for one specific thing or another, and that might help the person
+get some deals, get advertising, get a job, get noticed, get to be the expert in the
+field.
+That means that you're not just starting a blog.
+You want to start more than a blog.
+You want to promote your blog and your work.
+And that means you're spiraling into social media, being a guest blogger on other people's
+sites, basically putting yourself out there to be known.
+So why is it that I blog?
+I've been blogging on and off for, oh, maybe not quite as long as a decade, but getting
+there.
+I blog because I like to write, and I like to think that somebody might stumble across
+my blog and say, oh, what an interesting idea that person had.
+I like to post my writing, basically to toss it out to the universe, and if someone enjoys
+reading, great, if they don't, fine.
+I'm not there to start a conversation.
+I'm not there to really impress people.
+It's just I'd like to share.
+And so that's why I blog.
+I've done other blogs.
+I do one for Raspberry Vi, where I talk about some of my Raspberry Pi experiences.
+And mostly, I try to document what I've done, so that if I need to look it up again,
+I can do that.
+I think I probably use my blog more than anybody else, just for that reason.
+It's my story, and I enjoy telling stories, so this is my Raspberry Pi story.
+I blog when I feel like it, when I have something to say, when I have something to share.
+Another way of blogging is to assign yourself a schedule, which is to say, I blog on Wednesdays,
+or I blog three times a day, or I blog twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.
+Some people find that helps them, and it helps their readers know when there will be
+new content.
+As I said, I blog when I feel like it, because this blog is something I enjoy putting together,
+and so when I don't want to make it a job, I want to blog when I feel like it, and when
+I don't feel like it, I don't blog.
+Again, it depends on why you are blogging, and what you hope to accomplish when you blog.
+Well, I think I've run out of ideas for what I want to say about blogging at this point,
+if there's something else I can cover that somebody wants to know, and I might know the
+answer to, let me know, and I'll see what I can do.
+Thanks for listening.
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