Of all the pointers in the book, there was one I found to be the more interesting and most intensive of them all. Since this is blurbed on the back of the book, I’m not giving away classified data by telling you it’s: "What five blogs do you regularly read?" While some read the same blogs consistently, others like to mix it up and quite a few follow many more than five. Content feeders like RSS (read: Really Simple Syndication) are popular too. I was fascinated by the answers that included why each one was chosen. For the sake of using Blog Blazers as a study guide, I also followed the ones mentioned in each interview. That was the part that I found to be intense, as I was out of my comfort zone of favored reading materials. Happily, several advised selecting blogs that echo your own personal interests, which came in handy the closer I got towards the end of the book, especially in light of the fact that I’d reached a saturation point of unique blogs.
At this point, you might be scratching your head and wondering why, if I’ve gone through all these steps, haven’t you heard, read or seen my own personal blog yet? Did all the time and effort I spent lead to naught? Remember, I warned you at the start of my relatively infant state in this world. So I’m just barely taking baby steps. In regards to the highly esteemed panel put forth in Blog Blazers I haven't started to crawl. But I’m working on it and have already had an unintentional upside to having read this book. Around the same time I took this on, I also joined the world of micro-blogging via the social media site Twitter. Quite a few of the insights given in the book are applicable there as well. Indeed, as I became more familiar with names from the book like Stephane Grenier, Guy Kawasaki, Darren Rowse/ProBlogger and Mashable I found them on Twitter and made it a point to follow them there.
Even if you aren’t into the blogosphere scene and you’re ready to write off Blog Blazers as not being a book for you, it may have a place in your own library after all.
Article comments
1 - Teresa Schultz
You're obviously passionate about this book, meaning it must have really helped you, as it comes across in your review of it. An excellent review. Well done.