http://delicious.com/popular/photo

This is very handy when you want to do some research for your blog or when you are looking for a topic you want to blog upon.

Then I recently found popacular.com. Based on delicious bookmarks. This site delivers what has been most bookmarked in the latest hour, 8 hours, a day, a week, a month, and since the dawn of time!

I discovered that flickr is the most bookmarked site with 58,132 bookmarks behind youtube 54,629 bookmarks then comes Pandora and Google is only at the 19th place.

Regarding the last hour we can the Google Trends Flu in third position, which I recently quote in my French blog. I dit get the information from popacular in fact. At the time you are reading this post, the google flu trends bookmark should have disappeared.

There is also the same for the last twitts, but at the time I tried  it did not work.

Popacular.com/

You can also subscribe to RSS feeds

Popacular.com/index.rss

You have the right to blog about all thes subjects and even those you do not know. At the beginning you obviously will not get lots of  visitors or earn a fortune, since those who will read you, will see that you do not know much about your topic. In this post I give you 14 good reason to blog on a topic you do not know.

1. You find a new passion, you want to do some research on a subject then make part of this new passion through a blog. In addition to your new research, you will also develop a research approach, new technical skills to find information, so you can also blog about it.
2. You are self made man, you have already learned many things in life and you know that if you put all your passion you will the level of other blogs talking about the same topic.
3. You have good diplomas so this is the proof that  you’ve learned how to learn, this should help you to write an interesting blog.
4. Blogging helps you  to structure your thoughts in writing. You become a blogger when you blog. (c’est en forgeant qu’on devient forgeron = it makes perfect)
5. Be humble, say you are not an expert in your new area, you’ll be the laughing stock of specialists and you will lose your credibility for later. Say that you are a newbie, but you learn quickly. The tetra experts were also newbies like you  and if some experts begins to criticize your blog this will be the first signs that your blog is a new voice, that you start catching the interest of others. This will encourage you to write more about your topic.  You will see that they will even plagiarize you at some point and this is a victory for your blog. One does not copy the crap
6. It is a great way to make new friends, bloggers are friendly people and blogging is made to share, help others and are not miserly advice.
7. The eye of a beginner is a fresh eye. You can attract few readers and even some experts because you bring a new perspective, new blood. This is also very useful nowadays, especially in new technologies. I sometimes want to build a green eco blog, I do not know anything, it is only something that I like.
8. Are you really a beginner in the field? If you start blogging on a topic, it is that you already have your say. You have not lifted one morning and say, I would like blogging about the reproduction of locusts in the Amazon! Unless you’re a little crazy!
9. Measure Yourself. Make a flash back on your progress. Review your first posts and it will do you good to see the tremendous progress you have achieved in so short a time. Knowledge is for me as important as good health.
10. Laugh at your first posts which are completely void and make fun of yourself on the subject and make mea culpa, it will make you credible. Rewrite them in case.
11. After all, you can even blog for your pleasure and you may not want to to have an audience. It is the democratic principle of the blog. You do what you want, you are in the purest democracy, you have the right to correct spelling, you have the right to shout, to declare your are lazy, you are entitled to almost everything apart from the things forbidden by law.
12. If you realize after a certain time that your blog topic is not your cup of tea anymore then kill your blog! You’re the only master in the world, you can decide to kill your blog whenever you want. You’ll just frustrate a few readers who began to love your writing.
13. Blogging can be a good therapy, even a way to get out of a large problem in life, blogging on death, illness, blogging about your child who is on drugs,  blogging about your nervous breakdown, blogging about you silly boss is a very good therapy. At first it is not necessarily a specialist  of problems that happens in your live (almost)  but you can put all the chances on your side to get away with your problems. Blogging can cure.
14. Blogging on a topic you do not know, will  make you discover another world. You will have to be a webmaster, a statisticians, in diplomat to manage your comments, a business man to get a little money out of your blog, be a marketer…

Having writtern that I think you are convinced to start a blog on any topic. Anyway make sure that your blog is written with passion. Without passion, writing a blog is just painful.

Passion is the engine on any entrepreneurship, knwoledge comes after.

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This is a selection of five sites where you can find free templates for your blogger blog like 3 columns template.

Templates-blogger.com

This site offers around 200 templates where you can find for example 3 columns templates and other variations.

Btemplates.com

This site is as good as the first one, you can surely find what you really want for your blog

Ourblogtemplates.com

Another good site to find very good templates among other tips for blogger

bloggerbuster.com

In addition to templates, blogerbuster offers a host of tutorials to improve your blog

Mashable.com

Mashable presents a selection of 70 templates in this post.

I’m sure that with this selection of site you have more than enough, if you have other good site for blogger templates, please drop me a line.

original text in French : Roget.biz

Why?

Well that should take a long time to explain but let me sum up my motivation to write a blog in English.

1. As English language is the common language used in the world, this blog will enable me to be read by more people.
2. I also need to practice this language, so this will be a good opportunity for me to improve my writing
3. The more you write, the better you write. This is true not only for languages but for your new ideas.
4. I ‘m sure that one day i’ll start have new ideas in English that I wouldn’t have had if I wrote only in French.
5. I’m writing an average 3 posts a day on my french blog. I expect to write only 5 per week on this one. So it will not be time consuming to do so.
6. I find more difficult to find new topics than translating what I’ve already written in French
7. Translating your own writing is very easy and you dont’ need to do a strict translation, this is the fun of it!,
8. Blogging is a nice way to get to know new friends and share knowledge, so why should I stick with French only speaking people.
9. I hear that English blogs get more opportunity to make money, so why not have a try !
10. I don’t need to create a new AdSense account, the French one will work perfectly on that blog
11. To find some more business opportunities
12. it’s a way to virtually travel without leaving your country
13. Designing a first blog from scratch is a lot of work. The second blog is just very easy to set up.
14. To be able to leave  comments on English blogs and giving mentioning my English blog instead of my french blogs which deters most people to read it as it is written in french
15. I would like one day to live in the USA at least for three years to gives my daughters to learn English
16. To give you a french taste on this blog, although I’m living in Brazil.

So pardon me awkward English writing, I’m sure that it will improve a lot thanks to this blog.