While webbrowsing the other day, I spent some time reading some PCa weblogs, both corporate and personal, that had come up as I was searching the usual PCa terms, to do some casual reading about
them.
The term "blog" derives of course from "weblog."
weblog (n.): a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style. (Bing definition).
Obviously there are blogs about
everything, written by every type of person. So inevitably there are blogs about
personal cancer experiences, including PCa, and a good number of them at that, and telling about
virtually every possible aspect of the cancer experience.
So it's easy to spend an evening locating and reading people's PCa experiences on the blogs that they post online
Granted, starting, writing, and keeping up one's own personal cancer blog, for PCa it would be in our case, is not for everyone. But if you do happen to have an interest in possibly doing so, if you are not doing so already, or just want to see the sorts of things that would be involved in doing so, read on.
Actually, it's easier to do than you might think. In fact, if you google
blogging apps
(doing so both with and without enclosing parentheses pulls up a bunch of sites) you see lots of sites (many free) ready to assist in getting started with creating one's own blog site.
There are even many "how to do it" sites out there, some easier to read and understand than others, which can help.
Here's a "how to do it" site that I thought explained the process rather well, and in a way especially suitable for a largely non-technical person like me:
https://cancerv.me/2020/05/01/how-to-start-a-cancer-blog/Article summary: it lists and evaluates a number of (mostly) free blogsites available for those who want to set up and offer their own cancer blogs, along with options the blogsites offer. Steps in setting up a blog, and how to run and maintain it.
For many people, perhaps most, going with a free, turnkey-style personal blog set-up would be the best way to go: keeping things simple, and with a minimum requirement for personal technical expertise.
Again, searching "blogging apps," evaluating them, and selecting one that you think will work for you, seems like what would be the best path for most of us.
Examples of PCa blogs can be corporate or personal.
Here's one evaluative site that lists what it considers a "top ten" of both kinds:
"The 10 best prostate cancer blogs" (according to Medical News Today):
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318670#journey-to-zero NOTE: There's a
special reason why I cite this particular site and its own version of the top ten. Go to it and
be certain to read the entry for "Living with Prostate Cancer." That's because this particular blog is written by Todd Seals, who many of you will immediately recognize as one of our forum's own, Todd1963, who not only posts here, but as well writes a first-class PCa blog.
Link:
https://toddseals63.blogspot.comI heartily agree that Todd's blog is a top ten winner, and should be in anybody's book, and I do encourage you to visit and read it if you have never done so.
Again, starting and keeping a PCa blog is not something we're all going to run out and do today, but it really is interesting to know at least a bit about
the personal blogging process, and setting up one's own blog, and that it's within the means of most every one to do, if they do decide it would be something they would really like to try.