This is long, but well worth sitting through to catch up with the ideas and concepts that have driven the success of blogging as a medium over the last decade. Don't worry about the software stuff at the beginning - it rapidly moves beyond that.
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Adam - first of all thank you for linking my satire blog to here the other night. It's appreciated.
I watched part of clip and was attentive for about a fifth of it, but sadly my attention wandered as my hands crept back towards my gorgeous new Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 which I'll elaborate on after some on-topic stuff...
I'd heard about blogging for years but only rarely ended up on one and only one would I visit consciously on occasion - Wil Wheaton's. It was actually by coincidence I saw Slashdot's link to Will Sturgeon's Media Blog for a story some weeks ago. I'd hitherto posted the odd comment deemed funny online, have read satirical stuff for a long time, and I 'do' journalism...so I thought 'Hey what about doing a satire website?'
Dirty Garnet is gaining popularity week-on-week so far, and its starting to feeling as fulfilling as old school journo stuff. The first few days were annoying, having to drag my non-savvy arse into getting a decent looking site up. Tweaking the aesthetics and all that did make me want to give up given the hours that went in prior to even putting up the first article. But keeping at it paid off, as keeping at stuff commonly does.
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-Pete, editor at dirtygarnet.com