Benefits of blogging

These are a number of rewards for blogging, both technical and social.

Some good Technical reasons for programmers, web developers, technical managers, publishers, and journalists to blog include:

• learn XHTML, you know - that little thing almost the entire web is made out of
• learn CSS, get a flair for making things in writing look beautiful/logical - not just sound beautiful/logical
• experience modern way of writing
• let someone else worry about doing the backups for a change
• build on the shoulders of giants, use their templates instead of building our own CSS and template language from scratch
• handy way of bookmarking things, with a bit more room to describe their context/meaning/significance
• information is in a standards-based format
• practice typing - so you can type faster
• practice spelling - so you make fewer spelling errors elsewhere
• improve your ability to take extra good advantage of other programs that use XHTML as their inner language
• increase your XML skill/experience

Some good Social reasons for programmers, web developers, technical managers, publishers, and journalists to blog include:

• meet new experts in whatever topic you blog about
• improve social skills
• learn better communicating: grammar, writing, spelling, logical argument
• learn to respond better to rhetoric
• write about things you are passionate about
• write about things you are not passionate about - for a change
• learn about new things, keep track of what you learn about those things
• socialize with friends; sharing ideas and relying information
• think more creatively
• focus on constructive ways of viewing things - and describe those things the best ways you can