Help A Newbie Blogger Out

Jason Kottke got a letter from a reader a few days ago:

I am father to a 2 1/2 yr old girl with her second cancer who is going for a bone marrow transplant in late March. I have just started to think about fundraising when I was forwarded your interview in Wired and it got me thinking that perhaps I could use the same approach to raise money for Julia.

I have been keeping a blog since she was diagnosed the 2nd time on 12/30/04. Although I am a web architect, I know next to nothing about blogs and am spending all my time researching cancer. Thus, the format, graphics, and look and feel have been completely neglected -- the main focus has been the content in order to -- keep a record for family, journal for Julia for when she is older, help me philosophize about life and put her illness into perspective, etc.

I was hoping you could give me some tips on getting started...

So, Jason himself answered some of the questions and left some others to other readers; readers started commenting on the entry and I think now, there is a lot of information about blogging in the comments of the original entry... Help yourself!

Posted by Fikirbaz at March 9, 2005 09:50 AM

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