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omarmodesto on "The story behind your blog"

omarmodesto — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:47:01 +0000

Once upon a time, I decided to start blogging.

...

Yep, that's all I've got.

angryraisins on "The story behind your blog"

angryraisins — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:02:21 +0000

Long, long (okay, not all that long) ago; in a server space far, far (okay, not all that far) away; a young blog set out to seek its fortune.

It wandered far and wide for years, gathering ideas and bits of postings to various internet fora, until its disc of memories lay heavy (and very badly disorganized) on its back.

Every wandering entity must seek its journey-name, and this one was oddly intrigued (it was rather an odd entity itself, and most of the things it did, it did a bit oddly) when it saw a story about the title of "The Grapes of Wrath" purportedly having being mistranslated as "The Angry Raisins." It found the idea of angry raisins pleasantly absurd, interestingly impossible to pigeonhole, and - best of all - not already in use everywhere it went. And thus our young blog was named.

As Angry Raisins wandered the Internet's Superhighways, backroads, and overgrown woodland paths; it found that people were entertained by its odd analogies (like explaining radio signal in terms of rafts and ping-pong balls); its maundering musings on daily life; and even its occasional but impassioned Rants du Jour.

Years passed, and one day our young blog knew it was time to settle down and make itself a home. Angry Raisins moved into a small tract-blogging page in suburban Live Journal, but had barely unpacked its first post before it realized it needed more room and less conformity.

Then it found some free web space available in the big shiny office tower of its own ISP. But even as the staff were painting "Angry Raisins" on its new office door, AR was concluding that the ISP's web publisher had been designed as a highly non-competitive advertisement for all other web publishing software.

Disconsolate, Angry Raisins wandered the littered sidewalks of the internet, wondering if it would ever find a suitable home.

Somewhere amid the scurrying traffic and the drunken, raving banner ads, AR saw a friendly-looking website and wandered into WordPress.org. Angry Raisins drifted through the galleries, marveling at all the pretty and versatile templates available for the downloading. But, again, alas - there was no way for it to host one in its bare-bones space at the ISP.

Finally, stumbling out of WordPress.org's FAQ bar after one too many gin-and-widgets, AR found itself in the easy-to-use open spaces of WordPress.com. Suddenly it was in a place with free-wheeling and versatile blogspaces, attractive and approachable templates, and quite a few very nice people.

Angry Raisins signed up immediately; and, although it's still unpacking its pieces of prose and settling into its template, it's confident that it has finally found its home. :)

alpinebluesky on "The story behind your blog"

alpinebluesky — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:57:17 +0000

I had no plans to start a blog. I had the intention of simply flipping the domain in a couple of years. (it is a dottv domain, which will no doubt appreciate, but dottv is still in it's infancy)

But then I was thinking, why not put a fun blog up, something that people might actually like?

Having dated several chefs I've turned into quite the foodie, and http://savory.tv was born, a blog with chef recipes and videos. My goal with Savory is to make gourmet cooking less intimidating to people, and to show people how easy it is to make restaurant quality food at home. It was a slow go at first, very little traffic, I had no contacts, I made a few mistakes (ie copy paste!). I've been involved in some social networking among other food enthusiasts and chefs, and finally making connections! I've stopped the copy pasting and am adding short but original posts of my own. I've actually had some very well know celebrity chefs emailing me and asking me to place an article and video on the site

It's been so fun, and I know now the domain will never be sold! Hopefully it will continue to grow, and in the meantime I am learning some very valuable cooking tips! :)

arcadianadvocate on "The story behind your blog"

arcadianadvocate — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:40:07 +0000

I have a passion for people to learn more about the countryside and to understand how their food is produced.
And as an insider [who has been in farming for generations, to understand this please see the blog] I can give the real story of rural life and unravel the truth behind many myths.

http://arcadianadvocate.wordpress.com

Food security and provenance are becoming more important and more people everywhere want to know where there food comes from and how it is produced.

janne8 on "The story behind your blog"

janne8 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:10:00 +0000

i started blogging mainly to have a place to put my thoughts. I think its a lot easyer to work them out when you see it written down. I have also had a diary for most of my life, so it made sense to start blogging.

ncarlyle on "The story behind your blog"

ncarlyle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:39:35 +0000

My blog title started as Thoughts from the Underground, meaning my thoughts were not the norm. Then I began thinking of people who talk but say nothing. Well, I feel I write and say a lot, hense the new blog title Words without Sound.

Now, my link visitor queue came from a Takashi Miike film titled Visitor Q. Since Visitor Q was taken, I came up with queue, as in people in the queue waiting to speak to someone.

The reason for my blog is to write about the one thing I love more than music, TV and "reality TV". I will be venturing into soap opera recaps on Monday, 8 September 2008. I will recap Y and R and Bold and Beautiful.

slsch on "The story behind your blog"

slsch — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:51:42 +0000

I read domainer blogs. Shoot! I am a domainer. Sometimes when a blogger mentioned a domain sold, I would comment and suggest shorter or substitute names that no one owned yet. After a cease and desist email (because hey, not everyone likes freebies) I started my own blog to list unowned and available names I find – Sondra's Domain Brain.

79sparrows on "The story behind your blog"

79sparrows — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:18:27 +0000

LINK:

http://79sparrows.wordpress.com/

79sparrows on "The story behind your blog"

79sparrows — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:17:22 +0000

Well, I've been writing all my life.

It's the one thing that came naturally for me. Although, I do get writers block just like everyone else. ;-)

Through the years I've blogged on several different sites, but nothing for 'real' bloggers until wordpress. I'm glad I made the change over from xanga. It fulfilled my passion for writing, but wasnt a place for grown ups who strive to become the best.

I also did some blogging on myspace; it wet my interest for feedback..
but it's def. not a place for real writers.

Please stop by and see my blog,

I would love to see yours in return.

wheretotakephotos on "The story behind your blog"

wheretotakephotos — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:25:57 +0000

Full time travel photographer.
Supplying photos to visitors bureaus.
Daily blog showing some of the more interesting photo opportunities available to anyone!

http://www.WhereToTakePhotos.com (most up to date)

http://www.WhereToTakePhotos.wordpress.com

Now someone email me & tell me how to get 5000 daily visitors, not just 50!

regards, [email redacted]

sobluishthing on "The story behind your blog"

sobluishthing — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:11:23 +0000

I started blogging to join the fad.I've tried blogger.com, livejournal and multiply but i've stuck with wordpress since day 1.Now that blogging is not really much of a fad, i'm still blogging because of the alter ego in me.my posts are generally nonsensical if you read them but they mean much to me.each post reminds me of how i was feeling and what i was doing at that point of time.i've tried to write in diaries but they don't even last me an entry. blogging helps me to keep it simple yet dear to me.

loomisnews on "The story behind your blog"

loomisnews — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:28:07 +0000

My story?

I have WAAAAAAAYYYYYY too much time on my hands

afreerangelife on "The story behind your blog"

afreerangelife — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:37:35 +0000

I started a blogging by accident really. I was a member of an on-line community and I found that I posted on things on threads that I really did not necessarily want people to comment on. I just wanted to get them out.

Another member set up a blogging site so I joined that. After using that blog for about 8 months, I decided that I wanted a more general blog, that’s how I got here.

Being dyslexic I have always shied away from writing, however I always wanted to be a writer!!! I find blogging very liberating, its great when people leave comments, but if they don’t, I am OK with that.

If I am honest though, I do want people to look at my blog so I guess there is a slight ego that I want stroking.

bloopblooptits on "The story behind your blog"

bloopblooptits — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:08:38 +0000

I created my blog because I wanted to rant and rave about politics and my personal life. It’s as simple as that.

dlager on "The story behind your blog"

dlager — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:25:10 +0000

I started my most recent blog( my profile blog) because i wanted to learn to write better. My grammar, which has never been a strong point for me, was fractured by the onset of Bipolar disorder in my late twenties. I also felt i had something to share, as a successful manager of mental illness, perspectives and a couple management tools.

mybones on "The story behind your blog"

mybones — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:57:54 +0000

Boredom and as everyone has mentioned. An outlet.

gentledove on "The story behind your blog"

gentledove — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:53:02 +0000

I like to pinch people and make them say ow

pinstripepaws on "The story behind your blog"

pinstripepaws — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:46:35 +0000

I was laid off earlier this year, and that time off allowed me to find myself. I'm now employed, but am pushing myself to keep that feeling going of branching out to find my dream. The blog I started is a way to track the process of staring my new business with my mother offering pet accessories. Friends and family are able to keep in touch through the blog when I'm working day and night. I just started it this week, so we'll see where the blog and the business take me.

I'm highly optimistic! :-)

1tess on "The story behind your blog"

1tess — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:48:00 +0000

There was no intention of starting a blog. It started with a forum. That forum started a "project" for a year—instead of buying endless new cookbooks we hardly use, we/they thought: let's cook through a book for a whole year. I decided to learn Japanese cooking. Participating in a forum is a lot of fun because people get to "know" each other, but when the year ended, there were still many many recipes for me to cook! That forum has such wide-ranging topics, it seemed sensible for me to start a blog about the Japanese cooking I was especially interested in. I'd intended to continue posting my experiences there, but blogging is time consuming. I still take part in that forum, but I've now heard from other people.

chirax on "The story behind your blog"

chirax — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:38:39 +0000

I had been using the "Usual Suspects" the big sites and found them to be very corporate-licking oriented and couldn't say "A" is "A" even though they "Brand" themselves as a Blog. I felt there was something missing and no one was focusing on disruption around so, Then I can had a "Light Bulb Moment" to start a Blog which will talk about disruption and technology, with no bias. Provide users a healthy dose of news and not kill them with information overload. As Matt said be a Painkiller not a vitamin. This is my story

apinkykiss on "The story behind your blog"

apinkykiss — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:00:17 +0000

I need an outlet. Though the saga is far from over, I cannot contain this anymore. Very few people within my life's circle know what's going on. If they did, I fear the repercussions would be too great right now. Hopefully in two years time or so all will be out in the open. Til then, this is what I have chosen to do. Write about it....and no, no one I know outside the pc would ever stumble upon my blog. Even if they did, they would never put 2 and 2 together.

shelovesbaseball on "The story behind your blog"

shelovesbaseball — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:39:13 +0000

I have insomnia and I also have the summer off, so why not? I was reading some other blogs on here and decided that I wanted my own. I think it'll be a great way to be open about things and get my feelings out. Just as someone above said, I tend to bottle up my feelings as well. So I'm not going to do that here. I just want to write about the things running through my mind. There's a lot of it.

http://shelovesbaseball.wordpress.com/

deltafoxtrot on "The story behind your blog"

deltafoxtrot — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:59:35 +0000

Narcissistic as I am, I just post random blurbs.

lastfactor on "The story behind your blog"

lastfactor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:39:33 +0000

Knowledge is power; and our blog is about our ideas.

We're also no good with summaries ;)

melissalori on "The story behind your blog"

melissalori — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:06:11 +0000

Wow, all your reasons here make mine seem soo....crappy..

Idk, Im in college, needed extra cash and so here I am... contemplating another blog dedicated to just..me and life in general. You know, like some you just "unwind".

flavio, I agree with yellaojrak...truly romantic...

idness on "The story behind your blog"

idness — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:35:09 +0000

I decided to write about the weird and interesting stuff that I encounter each day instead of just forgetting about it. I'm not a good writer, nor is it probably of much interest to anybody but myself. Maybe it's like an online notepad of material I could use had I'd been a comedian.

yellaojrak on "The story behind your blog"

yellaojrak — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:58:14 +0000

I created Ojrak the blog on one late-April-2008 day without knowing what or how to write for I was not designed for communication.

Then I decided to write about my life. One post was published, then I deleted it. I felt sick reading about my own life.

A couple of days later, Idea knocked me in the head and said, "why not write about your neighbors and neighborhood, Yella?'

"and after a week I'd already be running out of story?' I said.

"Then write about neighborhoods. Maybe about this ancient land, Java! Or Indonesia!' said Idea.

I thought Idea's idea was worth a try. So I started blogging about Java, and the Javanese.

And now, I also write about what the Javanese cannot live without: clean humor, and dirty jokes.

modernwithanem on "The story behind your blog"

modernwithanem — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:17:34 +0000

I've always wanted to have a blog, but I'm not so deluded as to believe that people will actually want to read about my daily life, or that I will actually take the time to write about my life without getting bored of it (it's like reliving everything you just did... on a slow day, it's too much!). So instead, I decided that I would blog about things that I come across that I like or that interest me, and review products and such, because I'm the type of person who is always on the lookout for those types of helpful blogs. They make life easier. :)

thinkmaothink on "The story behind your blog"

thinkmaothink — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:42:20 +0000

I just needed to talk to someone about my interest in DC Comics. But no one around me likes reading them. I wanted to talk about it SO bad, it was almost like wanting to rant. It just kept building inside me.
So I decided to kinda "talk" to myself on WordPress. Kinda psycho-like I guess xD

alegna75 on "The story behind your blog"

alegna75 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:33:12 +0000

I am bipolar and at times my mind races. Sometimes emptying my mind of topics helps reduce how much my mind races. I try to keep my posts about individual topics, but my blog as a whole is not about a specific topic. Well, i guess it is....it's about my life.