After being completely inundated with hits to my site over the last 24 hours I thought, hey what better time to get back on here and post a new video blog.. Maybe tomorrow we’ll make it into the double digits! Jokes aside, Welcome to the 8 visitors that stopped by today, which was pretty good considering I didn’t really say or do anything yesterday. Today however is a different story.. Today I want to make sure you Get the Idea of the blog and what the blog is all about.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgaSEV83M88
I got the idea for this blog while walking around my estate on my way to get a hot chocolate. Walking around the lake with Glee on the iPod, smiling to the cute joggers as they ran past I thought, hey – its not bad down here, they’ve done a good job, I should come down here more often. That’s where I got the Idea.. How about writing a blog about places I haven’t been before, or better still about travelling to new places… Then it was a case of, well the local estate park might be cool, but I doubt its going to make the top 10 list of places in the world to visit.. and as the contents of my wallet barely covered the hot chocolate, its not like I can jump on a jet plane each week to blog about them. But alas, I still wanted to blog!
So short of winning the lotto I had 2 choices (giving up on blogging wasn’t an option) either keep on with the random blog about nothing (Seinfeld Style) or come up with a way to make a travel blog without travelling right now. I figure that although Seinfeld did great with a TV show about nothing for 10 seasons or so, I doubt that I could pull off such a feat.. Thus the idea of making a blog about making the blog was born, and here we are now.
So now I have got the idea, I want to make sure my readers (that’s you) get the idea too. I don’t have any real skills, knowledge or experience in building a site like this. The last time I played around with a web page was about 10 years ago.. and it wasn’t that crash hot, so this will be a learning curve for me, as much as it is for anyone else who is thinking about blogging too. Technical issues aside, at least now I have the idea in my mind of what I want this blog to be about, which is a great acheivement on its own! I’ve had a look at a few how to sites lately, where I’ve picked up how to get this far, but I also realised that I dont want to become another someone who preaches from above in a “this is how it must be done” site, cause frankly I’m nowhere near qualified for that.
What I will say if you are thinking about this is try and get your idea down first as it will really motivate you, after which good old adrenaline takes over and stuff just happens. So while I work out what the next step is from here, sit back, watch the videos and feel free to post a comment or a suggestion of where to from here. Also have a look at the youtube channel carlousmoochous which also has all the videos too.
Cheers – Talk Soon
Carl
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Good start Carl. Assume the pond is near your place. A bit of a pan around would have been fun. Perhaps a Google Maps link if I’m being really demanding. Will follow your ‘travels’ with interest.