Short answer: There is no difference between blogging and writing.
Blogging is the process of writing. The only difference is that our words appear on the world wide web — a global information medium discovered 30 years ago — rather than in a formal publication like a newspaper or a book.
The best part about blogging is that it’s free. You can set one up in just a few minutes. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Seth Godin publishes a new post every day. He thinks blogging is the best investment he’s ever made. Hard to disagree.
When we force ourselves to think and ship daily, we take responsibility for our work. Blogging also helps us connect to the world.
Advises entrepreneur and investor Andrew Chen:
“Writing is the most scalable professional networking activity. Stay home, don’t go to events/conferences, and just put ideas down.”
Blogging is also therapeutic, a restorative practice much like journaling, which also forces us to sit down and reflect on what we’ve learned and want to know more.
The art of blogging
Blogs are tools. They provide a canvass for working out ideas but also operate as a catalyst for building other stuff. The practice of blogging, slow and deliberate, raw and often unpolished, is an evolutionary stimulant.
How can we be sure about life’s improvement without disciplining ourselves to bridge the dots between the past and the future?