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The Value of Writing (Blogs)..

The last 3-4 weeks have been quite hectic with lot of travel. My work took me to the states of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Delhi(Greater Noida), Maharashtra(again) and finally back in Tamil Nadu. During this period, I travelled by practically every mode of transport – aircrafts, train(AC/non-AC), bus, Auto-Rikshaw, cycle-rikshaw and what not(except boats). While the travel has been quiet fruitful, my blogging has been a casualty. As I sat to write this post, I realized that my last blog was almost a month ago. While I had convinced myself that the travel was the culprit, Fred Wilson’s blog said that real culprit might be lack of discipline. His view was in a different context,but he attributes a lot of his success to blogging. In his own words, “  I toiled in the VC business for close to twenty years before I hit my stride and the reason I found my stride was my adoption of blogging.

As all of you know, I write every day. It is my discipline, my practice, my thing. It forces me to think, articulate, and question. And I get feedback from it. When I hit publish, I get a rush. Every time. Just like the first time. It is incredibly powerful.

And it is permanent. There is a long and winding record of my thinking out there on the public Internet.”

Now, in addition to Seth Godin, there is one more guy who makes a convincing case for writing blogs daily. And as Fred says, the rush one gets when publishing a blog is something not to be missed. As I am about to hit the publish button, I am getting that rush!!!!

IDEAVIRUS

If you have read my previous posts, you would have noticed that I am a Seth Godin fan. I eagerly wait for his blogs every day, and he never fails to post a blog a day. As I wrote 2 months back, he crossed the landmark of having written 5000 blog posts. In my blog about his blogs, I had mentioned that I had read just one book of his – Purple Cow. Now, I have added two more to my list – “Tribes” and “All Marketers Are Liars“.

Just in case you are wondering how this is all relevant to you, this blog post is about another book he wrote and which is available for free download. The book is called “Ideavirus”and it is about “Viral Marketing”. If you are fascinated by how ideas spread, and how you can benefit from those ideas, click on the image below to download the book.

If you want further motivation to read this book, read this “Unleashing the Ideavirus is claimed to be the most downloaded eBook of all time.- Wikipedia”.

I have started reading it. Have you?