Why (he) blogs

In mid-2007, when I started blogging over there, I detailed the reason why I was doing it: in essence, I had some free time, and decided to give blogging a try. Never really thought I'd stick to it. But it turns out I did stick to it, and the reason is simple: writing---instead of just "thinking"---forces you to discipline and organize your thought. The reason I'm getting back at this right now, is because I found a great blog post that gives you a great couple of other reasons to blog. Following the one I already mentioned, here's the one that most resonated with me:

Blogging is a bit like public speaking, and people are scared of it for good reason. You are really putting yourself out there. 

If you do it right, you will stay stupid things every now and then. You will piss people off.  It's scary at first to hit Publish and push your ideas into the public sphere. 

In the process though you will learn how to live with a thick skin and how to confidently state your opinion. You will also come to be more zen about putting yourself out there in general. In my opinion, these skills are essential for good entrepreneur and hard to learn elsewhere.

Have fun reading.

Blogger, blogspot, and comments

As detailed elsewhere, blogger needs to have third-party cookies enabled for comment posting to work properly. But instead of enabling for the whole wide web, you can authorize them only for blogger.com. Reproducing my second comment in the above post in my former blog:

The problem cause is described here, and a simple fix (in Firefox) is to do this: Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy. Select “Accept cookies from sites”, UNCHECK “Accept third-party cookies”, and on “Exceptions” add blogger.com, and click “Allow”. Now you can comment on blogspot.com blogs.
Untested for blogs hosted outside blogspot.
If after the first attempt to comment a red square appears, hit Submit again, and it should work.