6 Unheralded Benefits of Blogging (Or How I Gained a Degree in Technology in Less Than 2 Days)
Written by Coryan on November 4, 2008 – 2:29 pm -[Editor's Note: This post has been edited from the original. The names have been changed (or deleted) to protect the GoDaddy.....GUILTY...I mean guilty.]
Okay, the blog was down for nearly 48 hours. So Coryan, what happened? In a nutshell, hosting problems (with a sprinkle of database errors and other challenges). So, after a very frustrating 30+ hours of work to get the site back up, I thought it would be good to present the unheralded benefits of blogging:
1. Learning how to use redial on your phone…to call tech support 30 times in one day. (You think I’m joking?) Tech support, a job for individuals who failed the waterboarding exam at Interrogation School.
2. Adding to the already useless acroynms you toss into conversations to sound important (php, html, pop3 and my new favorite SQL). OMG, like Internet users don’t know how to spell out an entire word, IMHO.
3. Learning financial lessons like – the “low cost” provider is rarely the best provider. “What do you mean a $150 to reinstall a 71 kb database? BlueHost.com does it for FREE.”
4. Finding new friends on support forums who are willing to help you solve a problem, even if it means an hour or two of work on their part (a real thanks to CptCANUCK and Moderator Thur at BloggerForum.com).
5. Discovering the Internet ghost towns – forums where you can post a question, get visits from ghosts, but never get a response (except a know-it-all teen who tells you that you posted in the wrong forum, WHICH I DIDN’T you voice-cracking pubescent fool.) Here’s an idea, if you want your forum to work, try to see that everyone gets a response, even if it’s, “Sorry, no one on this forum is intelligent enough to answer that question, or offer suggestions, or even say how sorry we are that you are having a problem.”
6. Saving yourself a trip to the therapist. Just writing this post provided me more relieve than a visit to the therapist (who only charges $100 an hour, not $150 for 10-minute task like some hosting providers).
So, what do you find as unexpected benefits of blogging? Leave us a comment.
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