I am new to APUG, but have been blogging for some time (since 2004) I am not sure about the blog as a marketing tool, unless you put a lot of work into making it so. My blog is essentially my visual notebook and a place to rant. It turned out to be a lot of fun and I got to meet, sometimes in person, people from all over the place that I would not get to know otherwise. There is a lot of interesting analog photography out there... (Bjorke, I like your blog- a lot of information there to keep thinking over). Mine is a mix of digital and analog stuff. Dead Link Removed, Dead Link Removed, Dead Link Removed, and most of Dead Link Removed are analog.
I am really looking forward to being a member of APUG here.