31 Days to build a better blog – Day 1

I bought Darren Rowse’s “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” (Click here to view more details) some time ago and for one reason or another have steadfastly found other things to do with my blogging time.  To be fair enough, I have uprooted my life and moved interstate, but the procrastination stops now!

Astute readers will have noticed the change in my tag line from “Digital Demagogue …  etc”  to the more direct

“Pro Reason, Pro Science and Pro Atheism”

It’s part of my task for day one: Day One – Develop an elevator pitch for your blog.

The pitch:

Sean the Blogonaut

Pro Reason, Pro Science and Pro Atheism

Pro Reason – I think it important to advocate the use of reason as the best way to navigate life’s challenges . This does not make me a Vulcan, I am human, and a partly emotional being.

Pro Science – I think it increasingly important to promote understanding and easy communication of science in a time when we are beset by all manner of pseudoscientific buffoonery and deception.

Pro Atheism – I consider it important to raise the profile/plight of atheists in general and Australian atheists in particular – to criticise religion where warranted and to challenge its privileged place within Australia.

At this point you may be asking why I paid good money for someone to state what seems like the bleeding obvious.  The book is not just a series of tasks.  It’s essential a self paced workbook to get you looking at your blog and examining it with a critical eye.  With each task Darren supplies:

• The task
• The reasoning behind the task
• His application of the task to his own blogging
• A forum for you to interact with other bloggers doing the same thing

At the moment I am willing to give the workbook a shot, with the hope that in the least it might help refine my blogging or develop my writing.  If you want to check it out yourself feel free to Click here to go to the product page .

If you want to wait to see how I go with it, stick around.  I can’t promise a post a day but I am committed to finishing 31 tasks.

Oh and please leave some feedback on the pitch.

Edit 29/12/09: I have adjusted the tag line to read Advocate for Science, Reason and Atheism.  Thanks to the reader that purchased the book as well you were my first affiliate sale.

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