Too man factors come into play when dealing with the job and long term part of the equation and those factors can become daunting to college students who are short on time and new to blogging.

Seeing a blog with an extremely active community really encourages you to start your own.. then when things dont go according to the plan you devised you just stop.

so yeeeeyup blogging is definitely a long-haul thing.

I don't know how long-term you're referring to, but my “proper” blog has only been up for about 5 months and I'm feeling very gratified. True my subscriber count is in the double digits, but I know there's a small community forming that's very supportive and encouraging, and that's all the gratification I need!

Start the blog and go for it :D I'd love to hear your thoughts. Why not talk about some projects that you might be working on personally? You never know what could happen until you try. :)

“Verify my post” just means that you sign up for Disqus to keep tabs on comments for articles that you've commented on that uses the Disqus commenting system :) You should check it out when you get a chance.

I just happen to be interested in the internet and social media in particular. Others aren't and you can't penalize them for that. That's not their fault it's of no interest to them. We can't control what's interesting and what's not.

Your call to blog (and its potential benefits) is something I have been reading more about recently, and my interest has definetly been piqued, to the point where I have started writing down ideas – however, I am hesitant about the potential pitfalls. I am a final year computing science student, and I have been wondering, for a start, whether or not those in the computing business, especially those at the more traditional business end of the market, would like the idea of hiring someone who blogs? I know the snazzy web 2.0 twitterers in the IT business would probably, or at least possibly like the idea, as it shows you are passionate about your field; but might not many other companies find the idea of someone who is used to broadcasting what they think and know unsettling, given the tendency for secrecy in business?

I am also scared I might say something I would later regret, or possibly something which people might infer to mean something which was not intended. Do blogs allow you to delete your posts? :) Even so, it might get cached by search engines and just stick around… I don’t know, is there any encouragement you could offer?

Cheers

P.S. what does “Veryify my post” do? I just left it unchecked.