Ten Questions with Brico of The Rusty Nut

1. Describe your blog in five sentences or less.
The Rusty Nut Telegraph is a conglomeration of my thoughts, photos, observations, current events, useless comical trivial polls, and periodic details of my life as a single Buddhist father. For the first year and a half I was posting every day. Now the posts are a bit less frequent. That was sentence number 3. This makes sentence number 5.

2. Link us to one post from your blog that best defines who you are.
Ten Things I’ve Been Known to do on a Blind Date

3. What sets you apart from other bloggers?
Heck if I know. Bloggers come in all shapes and sizes just like real people.

4. When and how did you first discover blogging?
My ‘blogfather’ is Jkirlin. He and I have been playing backgammon online for years. He introduced me to his photoblog. I too being a photographer tried my hand at it. Before long it morphed into much more than just my photography.

5. What is your biggest pet peeve related to blogging or the internet?
Commenters who don’t mind their manners. Another blogger once told me that she viewed a blog like one’s home. If the door is open you are welcome to come in, but for pete’s sake (is that supposed to have a capital ‘P’ in that context?) be polite!

6. Name one plugin, blogging widget, or service that you can’t live without.
I don’t know about ‘live without’ but The Nut has a Castpost widget that carries a song to be listened to while you peruse my ramblings. Of course it doesn’t start until you press play. That’s another pet peeve I have about blogs: songs that start up automatically whether you want them to or not. “Yeah, thanks for that! I wasn’t just listening to my own music before coming to your site. Look, just ‘cause I find your avatar a bit sexy and I like coming here to drool over you… I don’t need to hear Linkin Park screaming at me every time I stop by!”

7. If you could choose anyone, living or dead, to write a guest post for your blog, who would it be and why?
Keith Urban. Because while he would be over at my site trying to pass himself off as intelligent, I would be showing his wife how to really carry a tune!

8. How has blogging made you a better person?
I guess it’s a stress reliever. Instead of having useless stuff in my head that clogs up working parts, I have a way to share them… and, I guess, therefore clog up everyone else’s brain. So the more relevant question may be: How has my blogging made everyone else a worse person?

9. What are your tips for becoming a better blogger?

1. Get to know other blogs. You will definitely get a better idea of which direction you want to go, how you can be unique in yours, and what kind of cool widgets etc exist to make yours look cool…ish… like.
2. Don’t pander to your readers. The only way blogging is going to satisfy you is if you’re true to yourself, not what you think others want to read.
3. Respond in your comments to those who commented on your post. Like a conversation in person, you say “Thank you” when someone says “Hey, this post has given me a different outlook on life. I owe you everything. You are now like a god to me!”

10. Name one great blog that you read on a regular basis. What makes it unique?
I always find Webmiztris to spin a good yarn. She’s hot and a hoot!

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