Slavo Ingilizov

Blogging entered my world about two or three years ago. I remember looking through a book in the student library at AUBG, titled Essential Blogging. I had no idea what the book was about, but looked at what the authors had to say and developed an interest in the topic. I started reading blogs sporadically, not following any of them consistently. Then I found out about RSS and Google Reader. I started filling up the list of my subscriptions and have been reading continuously since then.

I entered the blogging world about a year ago. Blogging was so cool that there was just no way I wasn’t having a blog. So I started one on blogspot.com and posted some student life stuff that no one cared about, including me. This effort failed miserably and I stopped writing, deciding to be quiet until I have something meaningful to share with the world. The next step was when I started a Bulgarian blog with a friend of mine. The goal was to post only humorous and meaningless content, probably in order to be cool.

All this time I was trying to figure out what is the purpose of my blogging and what I want to achieve with it. I started using hosted solutions at first, then read some more about optimizations and interesting things you could do with a self-hosted blog. I did that for both Naliven Bozdugan and the one you are reading right now, changed the templates, included categorization features and bookmarking. But until recently, I had no idea where I’m going and only blogged because I liked it.

Yesterday, thinking about what is the next step that I should take (for this blog), I came to the conclusion I’d been searching. It might have been Seth Godin that brought this to my mind, it might have been Dimitar Nikolov, I’m not sure. But what I realized is that I want to take a stand on issues. I blog, because I need to express my opinion, my mood and my feelings. I need to know what my opinion is. The thing is, a lot less people are interested in me as a person than I wish. So the only thing that would make someone drop by and read what I have to say is my opinion. I saw in this an opportunity to find the person I want to become through writing. There is nothing wrong with blogging about a problem I’m not sure how to solve, just the opposite – I think that writing about uncertainty and controversy would be helpful in making a decision or finding an answer to a question.

The end result of all this would hopefully be a clearer mind for myself, and more interesting content for you. I don’t want to make predictions about how it will turn out, let’s just hope that I am right and everything goes as planned.

Oh, and I need a logo for this blog, but I don’t have any graphic design skills. I also don’t know what would be the general idea of the logo and I haven’t written enough content to be able to tell from that. Ideas are welcome.

Found a picture in Guy Kawasaki’s blog from the QlikView conference.

I wish we had more stations like this in public places. Could this be a viable business model, or is it worthless, having in mind the efforts put into standardizing mobile phone chargers?