Today Google paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of Lego Bricks by creating the homepage logo the Lego bricks style.Everybody knows what Lego is but for everyones information it is a line of building toys that consist of plastic bricks in different colors that interlocks when you assemble and connect them in many different ways you can imagine,but the very name Lego is not the toys itself but the company behind the popular building toys.
Wikipedia has this info about the Lego Company history: "The Lego Group had a very humble beginning in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund, Denmark. Christiansen began creating wooden toys in 1932; the company began calling itself "Lego" two years later in 1934. The company expanded to producing plastic toys in 1947. In 1949, Lego began producing the now-famous interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks". These bricks were based largely on the design of Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which were released in the UK in 1947. The first Lego bricks, manufactured from cellulose acetate, were developed in the spirit of traditional wooden blocks that could be stacked upon one another; however, these plastic bricks could be "locked" together. They had several round "studs" on top, and a hollow rectangular bottom. The blocks snapped together, but not so tightly that they could not be pulled apart.
The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". The name could also be interpreted as "I put together" or "I assemble" in Latin, though this would be a somewhat forced application of the general sense "I collect; I gather; I learn"; the word is most used in the derived sense, "I read". The cognate Greek verb "λέγω" or "lego" also means "gather, pick up", but this can include constructing a stone wall."
By the definition and meaning of Lego and its legacy we can derive a good inspiration with and how to make our blog.The Latin meaning of lego in the general sense - "I collect; I gather; I learn" can also be applied to how we construct a blog.
- Collecting. In making a blog we try to collect, our thoughts, we make a plan, theme and concept of our blog.Always focus on what your blog is all about and make the design and concept blends with it.
- Gathering. In blogging we gather information and ideas on how to make our blog more enjoyable and in some sense "marketable" to the whole blogosphere. And again,focus on the main idea and intention of your blog and be consistent about it.
- Learning. Blogging is an ongoing process of learning something along the way. Don't get prostrated if as a new blogger your ideas is not that popular, anyway popularity is not inherited it is earned the hard way. Learning also means patience and persistent in what you have started.
The lesson from the humble beginning of this great company that caters to children and even adults is an appropriate aid to help bloggers to go and continue in what we are doing despite the odds of not getting notice at once. The main point is persistence, consistency, determination and focus on what we are doing.
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