Yesterday Shoemoney made a post in his blog recommending that bloggers “be themselves” and be honest in their blogs. The post was so on the mark that Darren Rowse made a post about how good Shoemoney’s post was and how important it is to be yourself when blogging, accept criticism, and celebrate your weaknesses.

Since two of the biggest bloggers out there have brought up these topics I thought I would re-post an entry I made in July of this year when I decided to be myself when blogging:

I’ve been looking at a lot of other blogs lately trying to get ideas of what to blog about and trying to learn “how” to blog. I read the usual big money maker’s blogs, and to be honest, the picken’s have been a bit slim lately. With posts like “Good thing I only need one nanny” , “Men are better than women“, and “The progressive income tax is not progressive“, it seems like even the big-guys are running out of on-topic things to write about. So tonight (just now) I decided not to try and make this blog like anyone else’s, not to try and copy anyone’s style, and just write the way I write, about the things I know. Hopefully my readers will be interested in these things and will be satisfied with the way I write about them.

So what the hell do I know?
Sometimes I ask myself this question and the answer goes something like this: I’ve only had a website for about a year-and-a-half, I don’t know shit.. And on the surface this is true. There are countless thousands if not millions of webmasters that have probably forgotten more about building and maintaining a website, than I’ll ever know.. Other times I feel a bit more cocky and the answers are more along the lines of: My site was a Google Adsense Success Story, My site grosses $75,000 a year, my site gets over 10,000 unique visitors per day and has almost 9,000 members. It’s on these cocky days that I start to think that you, the reader might actually be interested in some of the things that I could blog about.

So, here’s what I’m going to do: Write about these things that I know and have learned in the last year and a half, my way, my style, my ideas.. Take it or leave it…