Man, I hate when I strain my brain! I overexert it, and then I have to hobble around all weekend with an Ace bandage on it. I have to remember to do ten minutes of brain-stretching before my workout.

What? Oh, don’t mind me. I was just wool-gathering after reading that blogging is like a gym for the brain. Which is all well and good, except that I should feel my brain getting stronger, and yet I ask it to pick up a heavy thought in the morning and it’s still snoring in bed, unable to handle anything harder than the cartoons on TV.

Of course, most of us wouldn’t bother with blogging, if it weren’t such good web marketing. The same site also tells us why every marketer and PR-pro should have a blog. That’s something I believe, too. I particularly agree with the statement, “Having a blog will teach you so much more about this space than you can possibly learn simply reading blogs.”

Because that’s actually the educational end. When you read the comments and see the feedback from other bloggers, you learn all kinds of new things, which is a work-out in itself. Also when you goof, commenters are not shy in any way about pointing that out. That’s a plus, too.

Just be careful not to do it too much, or you might end up like Dr. Gumby in the Monty Python sketches. “My brain huuuurts!”