Why?
I am still asking myself this question, but I am drawn to this medium. Is it the new personal journal? Is it a way to write, practice writing, collate a collection of short stories/ideas to build into a book at some time in the future. I don't know. But I am feeling compelled to start.
From a macro level, there are many people that have created lives around a blog that became their most successful lives work (from a monetary perspective at least). On this list would be:
Julie Powell, writer of Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, which then became a Meryl Streep movie of the same name.
Candace Bushnell, writer of Sex and the City, who's blog then became an incredibly successful 6 year HBO TV series starring Sarah Jessica Parker, with a movie ending
Arianna Huffington +Arianna Huffington creator of the Huffington Post +The Huffington Post blog http://www.huffingtonpost.com/, now listed as one of the most successful money making blogs of all time (I always knew she was smarter than her ex-husband: scary politician Michael Huffington!) In 2012 reporter Joel Brown listed her net worth at $35 Million... you can read Joel's full article here: http://addicted2success.com/news/the-top-10-famous-multi-million-dollar-bloggers/
Not to mention top Style bloggers that all boast multi-million of views on You Tube, Instagram, and the like... by the way, not one of them is listed over the age of 30!!! 30! Like that is old! Fashionista +Fashionista ran a great article reporting on the Top 25 Style Bloggers: http://fashionista.com/2015/02/most-influential-style-bloggers-2015
Is 30 years old the line of age demarcation between old ideas of work & hobby, and when the technological ability to post for wide audience became possible... I ask you. Were all the people over the age of 20, 10 years ago, too busy working to take up the video and picture blog potential in a meaningful way. Please note the Fashionista article speaks mostly of YouTube and Instagram.... and yet here I am in a long form blog. Perhaps that is telling me something.... or perhaps I just need to post just as many photos and video clips... something to think about.
But all of this is not even touching the tail of the elephant that is now the world of successful bloggers... it is my understanding from my 12 year old son that the most successful blogger in the world is a guy that videos himself playing video games!! No, very seriously. It is slightly odd that this teen sensation has content that should be rated R for language, and depending on the game, violence. Tag name PewDiePie +PewDiePie (https://www.youtube.com/user/PewDiePie)... Ask any teenager who PewDiePie is and they will know... unless they are Amish. Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg is the human behind PewDiePie, and in May of 2014 the website tubefilte +Tubefilter (http://www.tubefilter.com/2014/06/12/top-100-most-viewed-youtube-gaming-channels-worldwide-may-2014/) reported 311.2 MILLION views in the MONTH of May on YouTube.... that is 120 views per second!!!
What does that have to do with me?
Not sure yet.
I am a big fan of Tim Ferriss +Tim Ferriss , and his 4-Hour empire.... His books, blogs, email blasts, tv show, and his Podcasts... I love a good podcast! You will hear more about him, and my favorite podcasts here.
Tim and his many friends are on the "jump in and get it done" band wagon.
So, here I jump.
Let's see what happens.
