After reading quite a few of their articles, I recently decided to actually comment at Lifehacker, only to find that they had to deem my first (few?) comments worthy in order for me to continue…Not just “you’re not a trolling moron” worthy, but “we feel that you’re contributing positively and creatively to our site” worthy. So I’m back to just reading their feed now :)

Thank you very much for the kind words. :-)

I would highly encourage you to start a blog if you love writing. I find it is a great creative outlet. And yes, as you see I am all over the map on my blog. One day it might be food, another it might be politics.

My advice however would be to make sure that you aren’t writing about yourself, but rather writing about topics that interest you.

So for example, if you look at what I wrote about my trip to Denver, you see that there really isn’t much about me but instead it’s all about the places I visited and things I did. This helps other people to research and learn from what I experienced.

Good luck with it, and a great place to start a blog quickly and easily is WordPress.com.

Take care,

John

I love to write and “don’t know what to do with it.” ;P I am thinking now of starting a personal blog because you said I don’t have to focus on only ONE topic (as I thought perhaps was mostly desired). Just be me and blog.

(I have a family blog but won’t share it here ;) )

You really are a source of inspiration to me on your blog…so thanks! :)

Kelly

My main hobby site is a travel site about a city in the Philippines, and even when my whole family came down here from Denmark none of them joined the forum and asked questions or even used he site for research. My sister actually joined after they got back to Denmark, but she only posted one post ever hehehe…

I must admit that not all of your articles are interesting to me, but there are definitely enough of them that I am commenting and subscribed to your feed. I appreciate your authority (something I might need to work on sometimes), and how much research and thoroughness you put in your posts.

It was neat to note that a lot of the ways that you find ideas (magazines, just while around) were very similar to how I find ideas of what to write. It’s nice to be a bit affirmed in your methods every now and again!

They are real tips. Everywhere else you see the same old tips being recycled, but what you said there is real, and true.

I don’t know why they don’t actually post comments – and I’ve encouraged them many times to do so – but I guess some people just do not like to post comments on a Web site. :-)

Yes, I’m spending a lot of time on the site, but I enjoy it and hey I’ve got nothing else to do while everyone I know is at work! ;-) Plus I’m making a lot of new friends all over the world!

John

3-6 hours a day (1-2) articles a day is a long time to spend on the site, but this site is very complete and I enjoy the different topics on here, I have now made it part of my morning routine to check what crazy stuff you came up with today :)

So your work is for sure appreciated, at least by the Dane camping out in the sticks in the Philippines :)

Kim:)