Om Malik, Founder of GigaOm – one of the most popular tech blogs on the web – recently completed 10 years of blogging. I’m sure very few people on earth can boast about the same considering the fact that blogging picked up only sometime in the middle of last decade, probably around 2003 or 2004. And even at that time, there were just a few who rode the intial wave.
Some important quotes from his story:
When I was working for Forbes.com during the early days of the dot-com bubble, I learned a vital lesson – you had to write every day to be any good and to have a complete handle on the beat. There was no way around the plain-old beat the pavement reporting.
So from the looks of it, Twitter has only acted as an accelerator for my blogging role, allowing me the luxury of writing less but reaching far more people.
Write everything as if your mom is reading your work, a good way to maintain civility and keep your work comprehensible.
Blogging is not about opinion but it is about viewing the world in a certain way and sharing it with others how you look at things.
Many bloggers tailor headlines and posts so that they’ll surface at the top of search results, making them at once easier to find and less enjoyable to read. And this decade, a lot of other bloggers mistook a strong writing voice for caustic irreverence. But most eventually learned that writing with snark is like cooking with salt — a little goes a long way.
Thanks Om for your insightful writeups. Looking forward to another 10 great years!
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Abhijeet Mukherjee is a blogger & web publisher. This is his personal blog about blogging, productivity, internet marketing, social media and other random stuff. 
