{"id":368,"date":"2007-01-29T00:18:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T00:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2007-01-29T00:20:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T00:20:57","slug":"why-do-bloggers-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2007\/01\/29\/why-do-bloggers-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Bloggers Blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question Daren Barefoot is investigating. If you&#8217;re a blogger and you&#8217;re reading this he&#8217;d really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete his short survey at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whydoyoublog.com\/survey\" target=\"_blank\">www.whydoyoublog.com\/survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As to why I blog, in short:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gives me a place where I can keep a record of all the technical stuff I figure out and the cool software I come across making it easy to find in future. When I come across a problem I know I&#8217;ve solved before I just go to my blog and search! I could keep that kind of stuff private but why? When it&#8217;s on the web I can get it form anywhere and others can benefit too!<\/li>\n<li>Gives me a place to send people when they ask me a question I&#8217;ve answered before.<\/li>\n<li>From time to time I actually enjoy writing. I know the vast majority of my articles are technical but when I feel like writing an article on something I&#8217;m interested in (even if it is just Harry Potter some of the time) I have a place to do it.<\/li>\n<li>By writing down my opinions and predictions it gives me a good way to look back and see how good of a handle I really have on things.<\/li>\n<li>I actually have some readers!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question Daren Barefoot is investigating. If you&#8217;re a blogger and you&#8217;re reading this he&#8217;d really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete his short survey at www.whydoyoublog.com\/survey. As to why I blog, in short: Gives me a place where I can keep a record of all the technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-5W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}