My baby brother is excited about blogging and when he first started babbling a few weeks ago about starting a blog to discuss his life, much like mine (which he knows of but doesn’t read), I was pretty excited. Up until now, my three siblings see my propensity to blog as a sick and demented quirk they were lucky to be born without, and are horrified that I’d rather blog than watch television or read sports highlights online. In fact I think my sister thinks the Internet was invented for reading sports highlights and sending the occasional (certainly not daily) email.

I happily helped my brother set up a blog on wordpress.com around Christmas time, giving him some pointers along the way. He has yet to write an entry.

Last week, he hit upon the idea of starting a separate sports blog. I had been trying to get my sister to start a sports blog because I don’t know many girls who can watch a hockey, football or baseball game on the television and comment on the athletes and the action on the screen in such a way that they are practically predicting what the commentators are about to say. It’s a bit unnerving. She’s very passionate about sports and has been known to decline invitations in order to watch a game, so I told my brother to talk to her about the sports blog (with the hope of getting three out of four siblings blogging). They talked, and talked and talked. My brother came back to me to share all the blog name ideas our sister had come up with, and some different ways to set up the blog. I offered my expert insight when asked (actually, he never asked, I may have just threw links at him and preached at him). He went on and on and on and started asking me about when he should buy the domain and that’s when I had to tell him to work on the important part—the content—first.

He hasn’t written a word, though he set up another blank wordpress.com blog.

Yesterday he sent me a message at work to let me know about yet another blog idea that he’s excited about. He’s checked and the domain name that he wants is available, but in the meantime he’s going to—you guessed it—create a wordpress.com blog for it. He has that blog all laid out and ready to go too…in his head, and every few minutes he tells me not to be too jealous when the hits to his sites blow the hits to mine out of the water.

It’s cute to see him getting all excited about blogging, and the money he thinks can be made with blogs. I hate to burst his bubble (wealthy bloggers are the exception, not the rule) but I see only good things from him getting the discipline to write with the regularity that he plans to, so I’m not saying anything yet. I’m sure by tomorrow he’ll have yet another brilliant idea, but no content to back it up. Maybe then I’ll speak up.

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