What Makes a Good Blog?

This question was posed to us this week and here was some of my answer:

"In many aspects, blogs are a place where people can share about what they love. Whether it be their family, their work, their academic career, political issues, poetry...the list can go on and on. But when someone can write about what they love in a way that grabs the reader - I think that makes a good blog. And a good blogger has to be a journalist in some apsects, they have to have interesting sentences, facts and information that keep the reader wanting more.
Not sure if my answer it the right one, but I think blogs are good when people write about what they love and the reader is able to gather that."

A motto from my Economics Class in highschool was

Do what you LOVE

and you'll never feel like

you're working.

That is how it should be with blogs! We should enjoy writing about a topic that inspires us and causes us to keep writing/blogging about other items that make us passionate. I am passionate about my Lord and Savior - that is why I have a whole other blog dedicated to my thoughts from the Bible and my personal time with Him. It's so much fun and uplifting in many ways!

While I am still thinking about the topic "What Makes a Good Blog,"

here are some sites that might answer that question better than I did!

http://www.43folders.com/2008/08/19/good-blogs

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/what-makes-a-good-blog-post.html

http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/making-your-blog-posts-readable.html

Another Semester of Blogging!!!

Hello Blog World : )
Looks like I will have the wonderful priviledge of blogging my thoughts once again as I enter into this Spring Semester. My Advanced Composition class is a 9-week intensive course of working online and one of my class assignments is to build a blog (which I already had for my previous semester) and write something on it every week about things I am discussing/learning in my class.

This week, we have talked abit about T.V. and viewing habits we had as a kid and how they have or have not impacted us. Overall, television has not impacted my life because my parents never wanted it too...praise the Lord! Here is my response on my class forum...
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Growing up, I was homeschooled. And for some people that may seem like easy access to T.V. whenever I wanted.
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Um - not quite!
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There were 5 of us kids in my family and my Mom saw it as a great joy and honor to teach us kids at home until we entered college. We had one television in our home and an old 50's black and white television set in a mustard yellow that was hardly ever used. Watching the television was never permitted until everypiece of homework and school was done -typically around 3pm. After that we were only allowed to watch 2 episodes of a show Mom and Dad approved of - this made it quite difficult with 5 kids! But it worked and it made us take turns watching our favorite shows. The television was used for movies at times, mostly educational movies and the occasional Disney Classic movies.
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Honestly, the television isn't really big in my memory as a child...most of my time was spent sewing with my Mom, cooking dinner with my sisters or playing games at night. We did alot of activities with other homeschool families throughout the day - which limited our time infront of the television. And this is exactly how my life is today. Most of my time is spent doing things for others, working on projects and spending time with friends/family...television is mainly used when a big event is going to be televised or a movie is being shown that everyone in the family will enjoy. I'm thankful for parents who kept me active physically and intellectually and didn't make the television a top priority.