In re starting websites/blogs/etc.

[Foxboy]

So. I'm getting nagged by my father to "create a WEBSITE! MAKE OODLES OF MONEY!"
My big problem? No idea what to do. Blog? Find some sort of tchochke to sell?
Or any advice for how to get started on a blog and let the chips fall where they may?
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[robkelk]

The first blog entry's easy: just rant about something that inspires you.
The second blog entry... that's a bit more difficult.
(And if you're doing something to make money, you really should have a business plan before you begin. I know, that's why you started this thread...)-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[jpub]

This isn't 1999, you need to at least pretend to have something people will want to read on a regular basis, so you can get page hits and thereby add revenue.
Gaming blogs, news blogs, politics blogs, whatever.

[Foxboy]

See, that's what I'm telling my Dad.
We're years behind the curve. And I need SOMETHING to do with the site.
Bush economy = Desperate scrabbling for any money source.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll