1 min read blogging

How to blog in three points

Fabulous post from Steph, encapsulating the essence of blogging:

Blogging is about writing, but also about reading and responding. Links ensure that a blog doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The parallel human activity is responding to comments, reading other bloggers, linking to them socially, and actually engaging with content found elsewhere.

Sometimes only people who are really good at something can explain it simply.

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