Somebody once told me that the first post on a website is always the hardest: After deciding to publish, getting your site online, and actually committing your first few paragraphs to the ether, things get easier as you go. In theory, at least.
He quit blogging after six weeks.
Writing for the web is hard. Want to be noticed? Buy a dog and wait for dinnertime. According to the folks at Technorati, you’re one voice among 70 million. Admittedly, most of those other 69,999,999 other websites are pretty awful, and some of the web’s most successful New Media publishers will be quick to volunteer that they’re really no more talented than the next person. It’s just that they hung with it.
As I’m also doing. My name is Chris Baskind, and I run a developing group of green lifestyle sites for Vida Verde Media. This, however, is going to be a personal page — a place to chat about New Media and related topics, my projects, and some of the things which cross my desk. Please subscribe the feed, if you’re so inclined. Browse the links. And jump in when something interests you. Thanks for reading.
There: first post, done. It’s downhill from here, right?
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Good stuff, Chris. If your efforts at Lighter Footstep are any indication, you won’t have any trouble publishing regularly. Always something interesting there.
If you use your Ma.gnolia bookmarks frequently, you should consider bringing that Wordpress widget up higher on this page. It could provide freshness in between fully written posts.
Congrats Chris! I can’t wait to see what you put out here.
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Nice! Best of luck!
All the best with it, it’ll all be great.
Downhill is ok, as long as it’s not too craggy
Yes, going uphill is highly overrated. I live close to the top of a mountain, so I have to go downhill to get almost anywhere. It’s not so bad.
I see you got over the first major hurdle — deciding whether to cast the “About” page in the first or third person.
Wonderful to see this, Chris.
I wish you all the best!
Yo Chris,
I dig your sites! Being a website owner is A LOT of work. I have 2 websites where I am the webmistress, editor, writer, and marketer. It’s hard to be a one woman band..When to toot the horn? When to beat the drum? It’s turned me into the mistress of midnight blogging.
Now I get why you’re always online! Keep up the great work!
Lorna
Green 2.0
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