Learning the Ropes

For the past several days I've been in a bit of a frenzy when it comes to blogging. The feedback I've received from my two best friends (and by proxy, their co-workers) and my husband, is giving me the confidence I need to really pursue something with all of this. Photography & writing have become two things I don't know that I could live without. In trying to set up a photo-blog today, I discovered a couple of things:

1. It is REALLY frustrating when people take the domain names you want and fail to do anything with them. I went through a dozen trying to come up with a domain name for my photo-blog just to have them kicked back to me because they were already in use.

2. While it's frustrating to have them taken, it's sure a lot of fun to see who belongs to those in-use domain names.

A few looked like they had stuck with a blog for awhile. Some never really got started and there was little information to go on. To pass the time, try taking a phrase and dropping it in front of "blogspot.com" - who knows what gem you'll come across. For all the fun it is, sometimes it's a little creepy to come to dead ends on the web. Most of the blogs I visited hadn't been touched in years. In fact, today I was looking for some photo contests to enter and came across a few websites that looked like they had just been abandoned. It's a bit like a ghost town, I think, when everything looks like it could be in order on a web page, and then you start to look it over and nothing has been updated or changed since the early 2000s. Makes you wonder what happened to these people. It's like "Life After People" from the History Chanel or the mass disappearance of the Mayan civilization.

With that in mind, please don't let my own blog go extinct - for all of those co-workers of my two Bests - please, feel free to become followers of my blog. In fact, I'm imploring you - I only have two, and one is my husband, I'm getting a bit desperate here.