Comments on: Blogging = Pedicure

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:18:07 +0000

That’s a great point. I didn’t really think of it that way re: immortality. Yea, server costs will definitely be an issue in passing. I just have to make sure to name my kid ScottDig…

By: Emad

Emad — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:41:04 +0000

Are you saying that blogging is a form of attaining immortality? You are blogging because you want your children’s children’s children’s be able to find this and read it. That sounds like a form of immortality to me.

They say that the number one reason people procreate is to get that sense of immortality. It must be empowering knowing that your gene/seed/blood/blog post will continue for another generation.

One advice, make sure you pay your blog host upfront fees for the next 200 or so years and have some sort of automated backup going on

Let’s just hope our kids’ kids’ kids can read English. My ancestors wrote hieroglyphics but it looks gibberish to me. Maybe their writing on the wall was a form of blogging

Kidding aside, nice post.

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Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:54:32 +0000

[...] Blogging = Pedicure | ScottDig – “Blogging is like the process of a guy getting a pedicure for the first time. Initially, he’s a skeptic and thinks it extremely “metro.” But after doing it, he feels great. The only thing is, half your friends won’t understand it; the other half will laugh at you.” [...]

By: Neil Williams

Neil Williams — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:48:42 +0000

A thoughtful post – agree with you wholeheartedly.

I *still* don’t tell people about my blog. Or if I do, I feel like I’m telling them a dirty secret. The irony of this being that we bloggers are all traffic whores online and happy to promote our URLs to the high winds.

On the ‘write as if you have no readers’ tip, see also this post I found the other day http://learntoduck.com/three-rules/three-rules-of-blogging