Be passionate.

there are two things unrelated to being able to spell and formulate beautiful sentences that are key to having a well-written blog:

• knowing/understanding your audience

• setting yourself standards by which you can judge your success

that said, let's talk about what seems to be consistently successful in writing a blog:

• tell a story

• reveal your personality
  
• show real knowledge
  
• write well, write quickly
  
• be quick on your feet -- make connections in your life and in the news to what you blog about
  
• be humorous
  
• find a consistent voice
  

We had a long day of travel; Will, Erik and I made our way from Vancouver. We decided to drive the 850+ KMS to Banff since we had to bring the podcasting and computer gear.

What a drive, I love the Rockies!

Now, we are all in Kris Krug's room, geeking out on the BNMI open wireless network.

Currently playing with us, we have Sarah Pullman, Travis and Susannah of Hop Studios, Eric Rice, and a few other folks.

I'm at the Blogs n Dogs Conference at the Banff Centre -- well, I'm at the Banff Centre, and the conference starts on Monday. The geeking started several hours ago, though. I've been sitting here in our suite, surrounded by the esteemed faculty, and there have been multiple laptops open since just after dinner. Including mine.

Really, I've had latent geek tendencies for years, but I'm almost frightened at the potential of this conference to push me over the edge. I'll be learning from the best here, no doubt about it. I'll be SO Web 2.0 Buzzword Compliant within a day or two... (it'll make Captain Ajax proud.)