Blog Spotlight: Tara Settembre of Tara Met Blog

Tara Renee Settembre, author of TaraMetBlog (TaraMetBlog.com), ranked on the Blogebrity B-List for her insightful blogs on any and everything from celebrities to homemade apple sauce and onions in a blender.

She lives in Los Angeles, California (though is still a New York girl at heart) and is currently working in tech PR. Tara has received her masters in journalism at NYU and has been accumulating a vast number of published articles on the web.

Her blog has been in existence for two years this month and she has written a grand total of 330 posts. She even did the math, which comes out to about 165 posts per year, and an average of 14 posts per month. Starting and maintaining a blog is almost a full-time job, but can be either a tedious obligation or something that comes as naturally as a journal. For better or for worse, a blog is a time-consuming commitment, but Tara wouldn’t give it up for the world.

I was lucky enough to contact Tara, who was willing to give me a few words of wisdom.

Who or what first got you interested in blogging?

In 2004, my professor at NYU Graduate School of Journalism, Adam Penenberg encouraged me to start blogging to help develop my voice and be a part of the new media. Then it became highly addictive and I couldn't stop. I soon started getting regular visitors and commenters and I valued their instant feedback on my posts and strived to make my site more popular.

When did you first start blogging?

I started blogging Oct 12, 2004.

What is the best part about blogging, for you?

I especially like that my blog keeps me writing on an almost daily basis and has changed me as a writer. I look back on my early blog posts and can see how much my writing and focus has changed. At first my blogging was awkward, until I hit my grove a few months in and figured out it’s MO—not surprisingly this was when my blog’s traffic started to boom. Blogging also allows me to self publish and has led to other online writing gigs too.

You mentioned other online writing gigs. Do you have any favorite sites or sites you contribute to regularly?