Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Web log or Blog - Summary & Resources

I get asked occasionally what is a blog? The wiki entry tells us:

A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is both a web application used for entering, modifying and displaying periodic posts (normally in reverse chronological order) as well as the totality of content constituted by these posts. Initially, weblog content was manually written on personal web pages, but soon after their appearance, weblogs began to be implemented from web-based software, and this is the norm today. The term blog came into common use as a way of avoiding confusion with the term server log.

Read the rest of the entry here. It is a far better compilation than I could do.

I started Steve's 2 Cents last year.

I met Troy Worman through blogging and we have a joint venture in blogging where we introduce other bloggers to "new" blogs we find at The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Blogosphere.

I split out my posts on running to a separate blog: Passionate Runner.

And most recently have split out most of my business writing on the good customer experience to it own blog: Passion for the Good Customer Experience.

Stephen Covey writes in The 8th Habit:
... voice lies at the nexus of our talent (your natural gifts and strengths), passion (those things that naturally energize, excite, motivate and inspire you), need (including what the world needs to pay you for), and conscience (that still, small voice within that assures you of what is right and prompts you to actually do it). When you engage in work that taps your talent and feuls your passion --- that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by concscience to meet --- therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.
Blogging has enabled me to find my voice or voices.

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