What is the name of your Blog?Life's Miscellaneous Et Ceteras
What is your name?
Brandon
Where are you from? (include country, state and/or city)
Austin, TX
What is your current age or age range?
21
Please describe your blog
A college student's frivolous reflections on life, love, and the universe.
Describe the main purpose of your blogging, what are you trying to accomplish?
I write personal thoughts, ideas, and opinions from a range of topics. I write to share my ideas and instigate discussion. My blog also reveals what my life is like in a general sense, so the reader is provided in inside view of a typical college student.
What blogging platform do you do and why?
I use my own platform, written from scratch. It is programmed in PHP and stores data in a MySQL database.
What do you blog the most about?
College life, philosophical thoughts, random musings.
What kind of blogs make you angry?
Spam blogs.
Give five of your best blogging tips.
-Write down blog ideas to blog about later -Adopt a voice early and stay consistent with it -Don't be afraid to offend people with your opinions -Don't ever blog just blog-- have a purpose -Edit for grammar and spelling!!!
What are some things you would NEVER blog about?
The price of tea in Brazil
Did you start blogging for the purpose of making money and if so, are you making enough money?
No
How long have you been blogging?
On and off since 2001, but consistently since February 08.
About how many hours per day do you spend blogging?
On average, probably 0.4 or so. I blog once every few days and spend about an hour on it.
Do you track RSS feeds and if so, how many do you usually track daily?
Yes-- about 10 or so. Mostly friend's blogs and web comics.
Do you use Digg, and why or why not?
Only if I read an article that deems digging... but I don't surf around on digg usually unless I'm bored.
Do you use Stumbleupon, and why or why not?
no-- why should I?
What promotional techniques work best for you and why?
Posting my link on Facebook works great.
If you could post a blog on any blog in the world, which one would it be and why?
uhh the blog with the most traffic... to lure in readers!!
What mistakes have you made that you could warn others about?
Don't write filler blogs just to take up space or "buy more time" before you have to update again
What are your top five blogging site picks and why?
Blogger and Wordpress seem very good with good support... but I've never used any of them.
Have you met anyone offline as a result of your blog?
Nope... that might be a little weird.
Was this questionnaire long as ?
Yes.
What is the url of your blog?
Life's Miscellaneous Et Ceteras
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