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If you want the freedom to write about topics you like and also express them on your own way, leaving aside style manuals or the famous inverted pyramid, the best option is to create a blog.

Internet is full of them. The company Technorati estimates that there are more than 128 million blogs in cyberspace and people write 1.6 million new posts a day.

It seems everyone is hungry to speak up and be heard. Juan Luis Cebrian, member of the Academy of Language and founder of the newspaper El Pais, calls it “one of the most spectacular social media phenomena in history”.

And you can join it very easily.

The first step is to approach any of the content management systems that focus on creating blogs. While options are diverse, retoNet recommends WordPress, as it is perhaps the most developed and also the one with the larger community of programmers. Besides, it offers a great range of creative templates.

Choose the template you like and start typing.

You can write what you are most passionate about and even your everyday experiences. Some people turn them into some kind of diary and many make them a platform to share information and initiate a debate. There are also those who use them to disseminate their work.

Here you can find some ideas to start blogging.

Robert Scoble, author of Naked Conversations and one of the most popular bloggers in cyberspace, says the art of blogging mainly consists of:

1. Update content frequently, as “the more public input is easier to be found on the Internet”.

2. Put links to other blogs as much as possible, so that you help the circulation of information and generate a great conversation.

3. Write short, clear and in an informal tone. The ideal size is 2 thousand characters.

Are you ready to start blogging?

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