What is the greatest value you derive from blogs and from blogging? The one thing that keeps you reading and writing from day to day?

Please rank the following in the comments below.

1. Getting feedback.
2. Learning new things.
3. Gaining readership.
4. Finding answers.
5. Staying informed.
6. Making relationships.
7. Self-improvement.
8. Community.
9. Mental exercise.
10. Gaining a variety of viewpoints.

If there are other reasons, please feel free to add them to list.

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Originally posted on February 1, 2007 @ 1:37 am

The following list of words that are either misspelled or misused by bloggers are important because a spell checker will not correct them for you.

Extensively misusing them throughout your posts may actually cost you a visitor or two every now and then because some folks do get caught up on these, which means they won’t focus 100 % of their attention on your incredibly valuable content!

1. Your – You’re
2. Then – Than
3. Its – it’s
4. To – Too – Two
5. Were – Where – We’re
6. There – Their – They’re
7. A – An – And
8. Off – Of
9. Here – Hear
10. Lose – Loose

Johan Holmberg has more.

Originally posted on January 31, 2007 @ 11:59 am

For 99% of us, blogging is not the road to riches. So why not try and save as much money in the process as we can? If you are blogging, and have bought a computer solely for that purpose, blog from home, and are pursuing some monetization mechanism for your blog, you can most likely declare yourself a home business! By doing that, you can claim tax deductions on your newly established home business.

There are several requirements for eligibility though:

Requirement #1: Regular and exclusive use. You must regularly use part of your home exclusively for a trade or business.

Requirement #2: Principal place of business. You must also be able to show that you use your home as your principal place of business.

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Originally posted on January 29, 2007 @ 3:16 pm

Have a sense of humor? You’re in luck, because funny works. Of course its great to be interesting and engaging, but it is equally important to not take yourself too seriously and inject some light-hearted humor into your writing.

Here are three reasons why humor is good for your blog

1. Humor let’s your personality show
2. Humor lightens the mood
3. Humor makes your blog stand out from all the other ones

Tan Kian Ann has more.

Originally posted on January 29, 2007 @ 3:02 pm