I have mentioned Blogs from time-to-time but have never really talked about them specifically.  The reason I am now is that someone emailed a good question this week.  Sheri asked, “Ron, is your DoubleClicks.info site for your column actually a blog?”  Well I had to stop and think about that for a minute…is it?

First, what is a blog?  It is a contraction of two words, Web, meaning a website and Log, which used to be a written record of messages sent or received like a Captain’s Log.  So a blog is a website with written (not always) messages including comments from readers.  The reason I said, “not always” is that many blogs are specific for a type of blog.   For example a blog site with only videos has another name, “vlog”.  There are also photoblogs, artlogs, mp3logs and the list goes on and will probably grow over time.

So in answer to Sheri’s question yes, my column site is a blog.  I list each column I have written for the past couple of years.  Also, readers occasionally make comments about my columns.

Personally, I find regular “blogs” to be pretty boring.  I don’t usually care if someone I have never met had a great cup of coffee before work or someone else is late for a movie, etc.

Now since I am a computer/internet geek I also have a personal blog.  I put this one up a while back just for fun to try it out.  And just like the majority of blogs it has only a few followers.  Most of my readers are relatives and friends.  My personal blog is named, “Ron Doyle, Another Boring Blog, Read It and You Can Be Bored Too!”

Some blogs are interesting, yes, even to me.  One of my favorites is “Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows“.  This guy is one of the top in the field of advice and research on Microsoft software.  He has good information on Windows 7 and also the recently announced next Office version, 2010.  So you can understand why I like it and if your interests slant that way you should go take a look.

I also like to read through the MSNBC technology site.

The last of my favorites is a Christian site called, CrossWalk which has many interesting reads too.

So you can see the blogs I enjoy are pretty specific. To find blogs that may interest you, go to blogcatalog.com where they have thousands of them listed by category.

OK and now the answer to the question you have all been waiting for, “Where is your boring site?”  Try it at rondoyle.wordpress.com and see some of the stuff I think about…that’s pretty scary.

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