Ok, listen.

It’s time to stop trying to be somebody else and blogging like you think you’re supposed to blog and start blogging what you feel.

Step outside of your comfort zone and start to blog violently. When you leave, there should be an impression and things should be different. Make people listen to you whether they want to or not.

Be prepared to give someone a kick in the pants, even if that someone is you.

I don’t care what business you’re in or how you think your particular situation is different, if you aren’t setting out to make a difference, you won’t. Shut up and start changing your world.

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THE HOME OFFICE Leta (airborne), Heather and Marlo and Jon, the staff and inspiration of Dooce.com.

When entrepreneur Jason Calacanis shut down his blog in 2008 and replaced it with a subscription-only email newsletter, his move seemed to be more of a personal response to abusive reader comments rather than a leading indicator of a trend (although software guru Joel Spolsky also shut down his blog earlier this year). But now others have joined the blog exodus: Sam Lessin, the founder of streaming-media startup Drop.io, recently announced he was shutting down his blog and starting a subscription newsletter — one that charges readers a monthly fee. And since he is also an entrepreneur, he started his own subscription-newsletter service too, which is called Letter.ly.

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Veronica Noone, a blogger, attends Bloggy Boot Camp.

A great article on Mommy Bloggers from the NY Times - according to a 2009 study by BlogHer, iVillage and Compass Partners, 23 million women read, write or comment on blogs weekly.

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