What is Blogging and How Does It Work?

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Blogs are a great way to share something you care about with the rest of the world. You can publish posts regularly, make an impact on an audience, and even create a new income stream, in time. Whether you’re looking to get started on something to connect with your community or for tips on how to blog for money, read on.

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What is Blogging?

Blogging is the process of writing a blog. When a person is blogging, they’re writing something to be shared with a larger audience – what that something is depends on the audience for which they’re writing. Blogs are often more informal than other types of webpages. For example, a company that writes an FAQ page will usually write it in a more professional tone than a blog that’s geared toward making a connection with customers.

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Is Tumblr for Bloggers?

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For years, Tumblr’s user base has been growing steadily. With Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr in 2013, the micro-blogging site became part of the Yahoo brand. Near the end of 2014, Tumblr had at least 420 million users — that’s huge for a website with a bit of an identity crisis. Tumblr’s gigantic user base is really enticing for many bloggers, but it may not be worth your time. Is Tumblr for bloggers? Real bloggers?

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Wired Drops TypePad, Moves To WordPress

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Now this is a huge feather in the already pretty feather-heavy WordPress hat: Wired switches from TypePad to WordPress.

We’ve switched content platforms to WordPress, which should allow for all kinds of widgety fun and games as we move our stuff into the new place and figure out where to hang things.

While at it, the Wired blogs have also gotten something of a facelift to “bring all the Wired blogs into closer sync with the main site, and with the magazine”, which sounds like a good idea.

Naturally, the WordPress Publisher Blog is reporting this, and so is Automattican Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider. Six Apart owns the TypePad service, and I bet they are a bit pissed that Wired didn’t go for Movable Type instead.