As of about a year ago, a study was done (State of the Blogosphere) by David Sifry of Technorati that indicated there were more than 50 Million blogs published and that number has doubled about every 6 months in the last 3 years. 

 

Blogs are clearly a big part of the internet experience and any recent books on marketing and networking will suggest you should have a blog as a major contact point to customers, employees and colleagues.

 

A big contribution to that growth is Wordpress.com, an open source blogging platform that is easy to use but also has a tremendous amount of flexibility if you're willing to learn just a few things.  I've by no means mastered the technology, but it's really not hard - whether you host it yourself and it's even easier if Wordpress hosts it for you.  It's actually a lot of fun.  Check out my blog here and let me know what you think.

I'm more of a summer blockbuster kind of movie goer than the 'Indie Art Film', but I'd heard all sorts of great things about Once (and there really wasn't anything else on that we wanted to see last weekend).  The long and the short of it was that the movie was fine - lots of interesting perspectives on music and living in Dublin, but not a whole lot of story.  That's probably just my lack of Indie Art appreciation.

 

However, the soundtrack is brilliant!!!  I would describe it as alternative folk rock with a lot of heartfelt lyrics and beautiful chords.  It's very stripped down with only the 2 leads singing and limited instruments, but there is a lot of passion and emotion.

 

Run out and get this soundtrack!