2004: the year I entered the blo­gos­phere. I set up my first blog­ger account and started writing.

What did I write about? Nothing that mat­tered; just daily events between my friends and me. Honestly, when I cre­ated the account I didn’t even know what I would use it for. I just thought it was the cool thing to do. And man was I right.

Jump ahead six years: I’ve tried many of the major blog­ging plat­forms, includ­ing LiveJournal, Tumblr, TypePad, Movable Type, and WordPress, and I still con­tinue to write. What do I write about now? Still noth­ing that truly mat­ters, but that’s what’s so great about blog­ging. I can write about almost anything.

Anyone can blog. It’s as easy as going to blog​ger​.com, word​press​.com, or tum​blr​.com, sign­ing up for a free account, and then start­ing to write. My rec­om­men­da­tion for a new blog­ger would be Tumblr, as it very easy to use and has many options to inte­grate with your Twitter and your Facebook accounts, so the stories/thoughts/ideas/opinions that you write will be posted across the social web, expos­ing your con­tent to hun­dreds; that is, assum­ing you do use a social net­work, you’re not a social-hermit, right?

One of the best sites to show that blog­ging can be for any­one is pos​sum​tales​.com. It’s a site that my wife runs with the sim­ple, but funny, con­cept: quotes that she hears our friends say, with the occa­sional story thrown in. She has never run a blog before, let alone with her own web address, but she has a great time doing it, and it’s very easy for her to do. She’s always excited to put in the next entry and is always on the look­out for quotable, blog­gable phrases. Thanks to her ambi­tion, her site is an awe­some stop for any­one look­ing to waste a few min­utes of time, and to get a good laugh with it.

Like I said, any­one can blog. Setup your own blog today, and share it with the rest of the FSU Torch read­ers: Comment on this story at below, and leave a link to your newly estab­lished blog. Happy blogging!