How does it feel to have your own little part of cyberspace, where you can air your thoughts, views and ideas? Doesn’t your blog give you a great opportunity to share, impart learning, learn from others and grow as a person? Sadly, not everyone is using their blogs positively or responsibly. Here are the 10 rules of responsible blogging.

1. Verify Information Before You Post

If the information you’re going to post is not true, of if you’re not sure of its veracity, be honest with your readers about it. The credibility of you as a blogger and that of your blog depends on the integrity of what you publish.

2. Respect People’s Viewpoints

Don’t use your blog to come down heavily on anyone’s viewpoints, be they religious, political, moral or whatever. Allow your blog to be an impartial ground where people can discuss multiple viewpoints but insist on respect.

3. If In Doubt, Wait Before Posting

If you’re not sure about a particular post, wait for at least 24 hours before posting it. Yes, we know, all bloggers undergo pressure to post and stick to a schedule. Check with your friends and network if it’s sensible to post it. If your counselors indicate in the negative, refrain from posting it.
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Blogging will never make me rich or secure me a spot on Oprah’s book club, which doesn’t include blogs anyway, and it will never pay for a trip to Timbuktu.

Yet, I can still travel there for free and virtually bake in the sun without getting burned.

So, what’s the secret addictive additive in blogging – fame, glory, or immediate gratification?

I’ll take immediate gratification for $200.

Waiting months or years for a magazine editor to respond to a submission is too distracting and can cause me to drive off the road into a ditch.

As I step out of the car over a flattened squirrel, I shout, “Damn editor! It’s your fault I drove off the road. I know there’s a better way even if it doesn’t pay the bills.”

Read on about Why Blogging is Addictive

This was a bit of awesome news for me today as I saw a tweet mentioning that I had become featured blogger on the website, Bloggers, a website where bloggers like myself can hook up with other bloggers and show off their blogs to the world!!!

Karen Woodham from United Kingdom has been featured, her profile http://bit.ly/ccKYY6 and Blog http://bit.ly/ceOvQb #blogger #blog

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So I was over the moon when the I saw the tweet and just had to get to my blog and, well, blog about it. I am hoping this shows that I am doing something right with my blog and it is getting recognised in the blogging communities.

So I must say an awesome big thank you to everyone over at Bloggers for the opportunity to become the featured blogger, so please stop by and check out me out on Bloggers, while you are there please vote for me also, if you are a blogger, then why not add your own blog

A few days ago I posted the question over at the BloggerLuv community, just to see if bloggers do indeed work as hard on their blogs as they did when they first started blogging.

Suffice to say there were some really good responses and it does seem that fellow bloggers are still working hard on their blogs and enjoying every moment of it, which is great to see, as with blogging you have to stick to it to make it work and the majority of bloggers that I know are hard workers, anyhoo here re just some of the answers I received:

• Peter Pelliccia Are you kidding, I blog harder now than when I first started, and I enjoy it a whole lot more too.
• Ms. Ileane Speaks In a perfect world it should be easier now than it was in the beginning!But I agree with Peter, I work harder now. As I learn more about blogging and social networking, I find there’s more to do! Before I learned how to get traffic through networking I would publish a post and be happy if I could convince my daughter and my friend Kissie to read it. So if I got 2 hits a day I was a happy camper!
• John Sullivan NO
  I still take 3 mins to write a post
  I don’t waste time doing what doesn’t work
  I don’t run around trying to make a bunch of fake friends and try to connect with people that don’t connect
  I try to look out for my friends
  It’s ALOT easier now
  I’m just as passionate just not as disillusioned like I was so that saves ALOT of time
  Don’t Chase GHOSTS
• HART I’m spending as much time as I did in the early years, but I feel I am more productive at least, in that most everything I do I try to make it HAVE A PURPOSE (#HART-Empire) in a long-term approach. I can’t remember the last time I did NOT see a “99″ on my stumble toolbar count .. I occasionally do stumble, but not from requests anymore as that was the biggest time waster for me.But .. am I a better blogger than before? Do I blog just as hard as I did before?5 out 7 days a week I don’t even feel I am a blogger at all actually .. and think that term will die out by the end of 2010.

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But don’t let it stop there, I’d love to hear your answer to the question, so please let us all know, Do you still blog as hard as you did the first day you started?

OK, here it is the new Saturday Six and continuing with the new themes for the Saturday Six this weeks theme is blogging.

As usual you can either answer the questions here or copy the questions on to your blog with a link back here (and leave a link in the comments).

1. What blogging platform do you use? eg WordPress, Blogger etc
2. What is your blog about?
3. When did you start your blog?
4. How did your choose your blogging name? (The name you use to make posts)
5. Do you blog for fun or work?
6. Has blogging changed you in anyway?

Now I’ve been to quite a few Google Blogger accounts to comment on, but, have found that a lot of bloggers using Blogger only allow Blogger users or OpenID to add a comment to their blogs, this IS bad!

You are loosing comments on your blogs by not allowing other users to add a comment, I know several people who said to me, I can’t leave a comment, because I haven’t got a Blogger account or an OpenID account.

So my recommendation is to all those using Google Blogger for your blogs is to go to your control panel, select comments in your settings and change to the option of “Anyone” and if you are worried about bad comments coming through, just set on your word verification and your comment moderation options.

You will notice that after a while and if your post is of some interest you will start getting more comments on your blog.

So please don’t loose out on comments on your blogs follow the simple steps above and open your comments up to a wider range of readers, we all like to comment and don’t like it when we try to make the effort and get stopped doing so..

Related articles

• Newbie Bloggers: Commanding Authority With Your Blog (famousbloggers.net)
• Google’s Blogger Is About to Get an Overhaul (mashable.com)
• Google’s Blogger platform gets a new-look Dashboard and Post Editor (downloadsquad.switched.com)

Yesterday, I was considering adding Blazing Minds to EntreCard and lies the problem!

WordPress hosted blogs will not allow scripts to be used, so, when trying to add the code which EntreCard uses to display cards etc, I couldn’t do it!!

Now the question is: Do I move the blog to somewhere like Blogger or grab a domain and host the blog myself?