Once you start treading water in this online ocean of information, it's easy to feel like you're drowning. Especially when you think about implementing what you see. How to keep calm?
Don’t worry about SEO, CSS, AJAX, and all the other all-caps acronyms you see. Ignore them for now. They may not go away, but they won’t bother you for awhile.
Don’t read any blog’s posts from the beginning. Resist the urge to go to the first entry and start reading, like it was the first page of a novel. Start with the post that’s up today. Then, if you’re interested, search out a couple of the blogger’s “top posts” that catch your eye. It may look like War and Peace – but it’s not! It’s also not a movie where you have to start at the beginning to understand anything.
When I started figuring out what all this blog stuff was about, I happened upon Wil Wheaton’s blog. I read that day's post and I didn’t quite understand it. I looked for the beginning, someplace to start, like the first page of a book. But (and this refers to his previous blog) I saw a long list of previous entries and thought “I gotta read all that?” Needless to say, I didn’t. Not that I wasn't interested. It was just that I was unsure about what I was getting myself into.
Why's there a whale accompanying this post? Well, I gradually came to equate reading blogs with a whale feeding on tiny krill in the ocean. I think we're all straining tons of information each day.
The trick to it is read a lot. Don't worry about starting at the beginning. Jump in and see what you can pick up. And then go from there.
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