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Personal Blogging|Blogging for the love of it

Lorelle at Wordpress published a series of posts recently on Personal Blogging, by guest blogger Edrei Zahari. (You'll find links to the whole series at the bottom of each post; don't neglect the comments.) In response, Damien Riley confesses that "Personal blogging has become my fixation," and points to The Online Diary History Project for some context.

I was pleased to see these, as I think this is a large -- and largely overlooked -- segment of the blogging community. Most of the writing about blogging is aimed at the probloggers -- that is, business bloggers (or meta-bloggers) who are blogging for money. Most of the mainstream media attention goes to political bloggers, who blog about power, and may make a bit of money while they do so (or not.)

Problogger seems a completely appropriate name for these folks; a melding of professional and blogger.

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ATTN: Bloggers

We have a couple of global events coming up.

First, from Listics:

OneWebDay: September 22

The Web is worth celebrating.

OneWebDay is one day a year when we all - everyone around the physical globe - can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities.

As with Earth Day - an inspiration and model for OneWebDay - it’s up to the celebrants to decide how to celebrate. We encourage all celebrations! Collaboration, connection, creativity, freedom.

By the end of the day, the Web should be just a little bit better than it was before, and we’ll be able to see our connection to it more clearly.

Then, via problogger:

Blog Action Day: October 15

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future...

Both of these look challenging, fun, and possibly even worthwhile. I'm giving them some thought.

Other blogging items to think about:

From Blog Sisters we have The W Magical List of Women Bloggers. Now, it's possible to get weary of this issue, and we do have several 'lists' of women bloggers -- but it's tough to not welcome a new one. Besides, it gives me an excuse to post an updated version of this: