I had a rather odd incident occur yesterday where someone has claimed woofbarkwag (my blog about dogs) to be their site and set up a facebook group for it. I won’t be linking as trying to get this shut down. This incident brought home to me again the importance of your online presence and what is associated with your blogs.

I think everyone that blogs for any length of time gets the deja vu feeling about posts. It could be your own or someone else’s, but there are times when it seems there can’t be anything new to blog about. You’ve been there ‘brought the t-shirt’, blog and tagged that same t-shirt - heck you’ve even taken a picture of it and flickr’d it. If you blog at any regular interval you will at some point get the feeling you are rinse and repeating yourself.

I’ve been tagged by Cas and caught the meme virus again. It’s not like a cold so it’s not going to have me muttering, the only symptom is the following post. This meme is simply 5 reasons why I blog.

A while ago there was something called blog club and it basically was looking at a different community each week on 9rules. It went well and then due to many things fizzled out a bit. Well, now it’s back and this time it’s got a home over at the 9rules notes and is open to anyone. I’ve posted about it recently and this week sees the end of the first blog club with posts about anime. If you want to find out more read the 9rules anime blog club note.

One thing that the internet has taught me is to think before I hit any form of submit button. Be it a blog publish submit button, forum comment submit or any other place I may be posting my opinion. I do stand by everything that I have ever posted - you may like that or not that is up to you. I also think before and read everything twice (often a few more times) before I comment - believe me some unedited versions would make for a great bleeper reel.

On this coming tuesday there is an attempt at the biggest blog as people are invite to join in an attempt to mass blog capture this ordinary day for history. It’s an interesting idea and points to the mainstream nature of blogging.