One of the many crowd’s at the blog conference held at UBC this weekend.
Darren Barefoot posed this question in advance of his discussion at Northern Voice, a blogging conference I attended this weekend in Vancouver, BC.
He expected a few hundred replies to his online survey. He got over a thousand, answering questions like “Why Did You Start Blogging?” and the inevitable for many, “Why Did You Stop Blogging?”
Listen to Darren Barefoot’s full podcast
For my own answers, I confess I’ve had a number of blogs over the past few years, all of them personal (until Brave New Traveler).
Aside from my obvious interest in technology and writing, I felt blogging was a way to share my thoughts on various topics, from movies, to news, to politics - basically blogging whatever was on my mind.
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