The Power of Blogs

A blog is a place where I can write about the stuff that I care about and share these writings with the world. Blogs even the playing field for writers. I have the same number of potential readers that The New York Times or the Huffington Post has. Anyone that has access to those sites has access to mine.

If I were trying to circulate my writings in a magazine, I would spend hundreds of dollars and my circulation would be limited to a 5 mile radius. With a blog on the other hand, I can distribute my writings for free and have a global reach.

My web design blog, http://jeremydorn.blogspot.com, gets most of its readers from outside of the US. My largest readership is actually in India, followed by the US and then the UK. I've had visitors from Norway, Slovakia, and Nigeria. Now that I think of it, most of the information I read on online was probably written in another country. The internet and blogs in particular have created a global community that has no boundaries. Hopefully, these ideas of freedom and connectedness will filter through to the real world.