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Thursday, March 02, 2006

Why do people Blog?

An interesting question came up the other day when some friends and I sat down for coffee. "Why do people blog?". Its an interesting question, and one that I can't quite be sure of the answer right away.

The purpose of my blog is to have a kind of journal that I will actually keep an interest in maintaining. One of the problems I've had whenever I try to start a personal diary or journal is I tend to write stuff that I don't find useful later - its just embarassing. A blog though, is much more public than a personal diary, and thus even as I write it I need to evaluate whether I want other people to read it or not. This keeps my posts much less filled with future embarassment, and as a result, I find I can actually go back and read some of the stuff I've posted awhile ago and say "cool, I did on ".

Aside from that, I use my blog as kind of a personal soapbox. It doesn't matter that I don't have many (or any) readers. What matters is that I have an area where I can vent my frustrations or give an outlet to my daily cynicism at the world at large. In the days of geocities and tripod, I started a webpage called "The Domain of the Herald". It has long since died away, and the only remnants of it are on a recordable cd I have somewhere in my house. However, this was my first foray into online editorial writing, and I found it was pretty fun to have this personal soapbox. Since then, I've always enjoyed a chance to rant about the latest media outrage for instance.

So that's the big reason why I blog. Primarily, it is a place for me that just so happens to have public access for those who are oddly interested in my life, thoughts and feelings.

There's a lot of reasons that other people blog that don't really fit why I do, but are common as well.
  • Anonymous. The internet seems to give people this layer of anonymity that allows people to say whatever they want. As a result, more people tend to be willing to jump out and say things *because* they don't have to worry about someone knowing who they are.
  • News. Some bloggers take it upon themselves to help relay the news as they see it. A lot of these bloggers have inside connections to various places and are able to get news out faster or in a better way than your standard news sources.
  • Commentaries. There are a lot of blogs out there that strive for readership. They consistently put out interesting articles and stories that bring back people to their site over and over. A good example is Daring Fireball, a site that has often brought up some very interesting things about the latest developments by Apple. Its blogs like this that really shine in this area.
  • Other. Man, there are a lot of blogs out there, and a lot of them don't fit into the standard things I refer to. Many blogs are a blend of these types. Some are very personal, some are totally not personal. Some are factual, some rely on conspiracy theories.
I guess one of the biggest things about blogs is they are a nice way of presenting a history of things. If you can formulate what you're trying to say into this structure, than a blog will do wonders for you. Its simple, its easy, and there's a lot of nice software out there to deal with your blog's history for you so all you have to do is write. Its really quite wonderful.

Heraldk

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