We often hear about how blogging expands our creativity, social reach, writing proficiency, branding credibility, and general knowledge. However, I realized the other night when my brilliant topical explanation became a lecture that the general knowledge bit has really taken off. Here’s what I’ve literally learned about from blogging.
We often hear about how blogging expands our creativity, social reach, writing proficiency, branding credibility, and general knowledge. However, I realized the other night when my brilliant topical explanation became a lecture that the general knowledge bit has really taken off. Here’s what I’ve literally learned about from blogging.
I must admit: I do not watch the news anymore. I rarely have time to watch television or movies in general – if I’m not working, I’m writing. Yet somehow through RSS feeds, Twitter, Yahoo, and Wikipedia, I’ve managed to learn quite a bit about a wide range of topics – and then write about them. Some include:
- Global Online Freedom Act
- The political tool of Reconciliation
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Prop 8
- Federal Budget changes for NASA
- Entertainment industry union jurisdictions
- The chemicals in gasoline and Windex
- A new social marketing business model
- Adobe AIR and HTML5
- Studio deals for new movie releases
- The rise of Google Energy
- The FCC’s plan for America’s internet
- How Flash media could replace DVDs
- Why 1.5 volt batteries come in different sizes
- Everything I ever wanted to know about tea
- The evolving micropayment
- Social broadcasting of sexuality
- A huge aircraft carrier made of ice
- Electromyography and silent communication
- What we can do with water on the moon
- Instant translation
- How to make use of aposiopesis
- The FCC’s concept of digital citizenship
- How Google champions the FCC’s goals
- The manly root of ‘virtue’
- The history of the ampersand
- Linderhof Castle‘s eccentric beauty
It’s sort of refreshing to step back and take a look at all the very important (and very arcane) things I’ve learned. I absolutely guarantee you that I would not have researched 95% of this stuff if I hadn’t been desperate eager for a blog post topic. Ergo, go forth and blog, and learn many things!
On a side note: in taking this step back and reviewing what I’ve learned, I’ve come to the conclusion that this is, after all, a geek blog. Huzzah.
What crazy, important, or disturbing things have you learned from blogging?
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