How i got into blogging, who inspired me

I mentioned early this week that i was going to tell you how i got into blogging and who inspired me. I will answer those questions now.

This time last year i didn’t know what a blog was until i ran into Smemon’s blog. I was searching on Google for website ideas because i wanted to see what ideas are out there and start a website, develop myself from there, after all i was studying web development back then and now i’m a full time web developer, i just wasn’t putting my skills into play. Anyway, Smemon’s blog was up there in the search engine results and i clicked through to his famous ‘18 random website ideas’.

For months i kept my eye on Smemon’s blog and i liked the content he was putting in. I then thought to myself, should i set my own blog up, a place where i can have my own opinions and ramblings. From then on i was visiting many other blogs including John Chow, Dailyblogtips and Problogger and learnt a hell of a lot.

Reading Smemon’s blog months on end, inspired me to create my own, and i have a few more blogs in the pipeline which are niche based. I thought to myself “is this for me?”, “will i have time to keep it updated?” and “will i enjoy writing/typing?”.

Answers to those questions weren’t answered until i actually started blogging, which is probably why i didn’t start a blog as soon as i found out what a blog was. This was probably because everytime i thought, “right i’m gonna start my blog tonight” those questions kept ringing in my head and put me back from starting one. Now that i’ve actually started one, i can say i’m addictive to blogging. If your still waiting for that final push from someone saying “go on start a blog, it will be fine”, force yourself to start one to see what it’s actually like, then you will answer any questions stopping you from blogging. I knew i would start one, it was starting it at the right time.

So now you have it, you know who inspired me and how i got into blogging.

I will post the advantages and disadvantages of blogging later this week.