For years, we have been programmed to watch television. Eat, sleep, and be what you watch on TV. Seriously, how many people do you know that you can’t call during Lost?

In our family, it used to be understood that you did not call Aunt Pam while Cops was on. And don’t even think that you’re going to talk to my Mother while Law & Order is on.

You may stay up at night, just to make sure you get your local news before you to go sleep. Or you wake up each morning and turn on the Today show.

For me, it doesn’t matter how exhausted I am on Sunday nights, I don’t go to bed without watching The L Word. This even though I have a DVR box that can record my show for me to watch at a later time.

Here’s your moment to reprogram because I’m going to show you four reasons why blogging is better than television programming.

Instant Publication

Maybe you know an author that been struggling to become a published author for years. With blogging, you don’t have to wait. Some of the best books I have read have been eBooks, written by every day people that are not showing up in Oprah’s book club anytime soon. And no, they didn’t all talk about blogging.

Blogging gives you a medium to become the author you’ve always wanted to be. If you wanted to have a world wide voice, now you can have one. If you wanted to write a book and talk about your skill set, now you can. And it’s not just doing it, it’s having the information published, instant feedback, and if you’re good, fame!

Your World Wide

Many television shows wait years to have a national show. Just to have their words, their story, and their show in front of millions.

By properly networking and promoting your blog, you can have that success instantly. People are hungry for information and as the blogging craze only continues to rise, you stand a bigger chance a bigger audience faster.

In reality, it doesn’t matter what your audience is. By hitting publish, you’re placing your content out there to be reached forever, archived, and looked back on.

Editing and Censorship

No need to follow any FCC rules here. You’re free to say what you want to say, when you want to say it. And it may not make you the most lovable person on the block but controversy has always been good for some website traffic!

Stumbling over your words? Don’t worry, now you can go back and edit them. No one will ever know that you put your words in the wrong order. Making you look more on top of your game than anyone else.

Timeless Content

This, by far, is the best thing about blogging.

Properly planning your posts will allow you to create content that is timeless. And as the years go by you’ll have an arsenal of posts that are still very relevant today as they were they day that you wrote them.

Think ahead and plan your posts so that you can pack in content that will always apply. Some things never change. Find what doesn’t change for your niche, write the words, and publish them with assurance that you have written timeless content.

Just think if you write timeless content, no one can call you out on your 80’s hairdo.

Your Turn!

Do you believe that blogging is better than television? What points can you bring up that I haven’t mentioned?