Comments on: 52WoC #44: Your Blogging Beginnings

By: Shai Coggins

Shai Coggins — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:46:40 +0000

Thanks, everyone! I’m planning to do the round-up shortly. It was a pleasure to read all about your blogging beginnings, Melissa, Kari, Rachel, and blue rose. Thanks again for sharing!

By: blue rose

blue rose — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:11:21 +0000

In May 2006, I created my first blog in friendster. Nothing serious, nakikigaya lang. And the very first entry that I published there is the song lyrics of Pagsubok by Orient Pearl followed by series of poems that I composed.

After a year, 29 June 2007 to be exact, my friend introduced me to blogger and i created a new blog. Just for fun I started publishing my composition.

Then, I realized that I can really practice my writing skills through blogging. So, I decided to continue it. Through time I gained friends whom they inspired me to continue to write. And I love it!

By: Rachel Cotterill

Rachel Cotterill — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:33:59 +0000

I started blogging a few months ago, before I really read any blogs, but I’d heard of the concept and thought it might be fun. I keep going mostly because I enjoy the conversations.

By: Kari

Kari — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:56:09 +0000

I started blogging around 1998 over at Open Diary. Of course, I didn’t know it had a name back then! It was just the next step in my journaling process that I had been doing since I was a young girl, and also a way to keep in touch with an out of town friend. I haven’t any recollection of what I first blogged about, but since I was 18 that year I reckon it had something to do with boys and parties What I do remember is how powerful I felt to be able to suddenly share with others and vice versa the thoughts that were floating around in my mind. Having somewhere to throw those thoughts has always been therapeutic, but having instant feedback from strangers was even more exciting!

By: Melissa W

Melissa W — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:20:57 +0000

My first blog was within a ‘gated’ community of sorts (a site that required paid membership and was focussed on a specific community) and that was around 2000/03. It was very much a basic LJ type affair, just typing down random feelings and thoughts from day to day. Then I began to realise there was a whole world of craft blogs out there and I decided to join in the fun and create a public blog. I created my Blogger blog in 2005 but didn’t take it seriously until 2006 and haven’t looked back since!
I had quit work to stay at home and raise Daisy, and I felt the need to connect with other people in the world. I saw how other craft bloggers had created a sense of community by commenting on each others blogs and I wanted to be a part of that, so for a long time my blog was simply a way of identifying myself when I commented on other people’s sites and posting pics of my craft projects.
I didn’t really have any major inspirations to be honest as I had no expectations that anyone would actually read my blog. It was about keeping myself accountable to my own plans really, rather han speaking to an audience, so I didn’t lok to anyone else to see how they wre doing it. There are blogs that have been on my blogroll since the beginning of course, but it’s the craft content that I admire rather than their blogging style.
I deleted my first year of posts when I started to take the blog seriously. Pretty much all those posts were bullet point lists of what I wanted to do, and even then I still posted like that occasionally for at least another year after that.
Comments were a big deal for me to start with, and I practically threw a party each time I got one. It gave me the chance to connect with someone, something that had become rare in my socially isolated new life.