Blogs

I have just taken a tour through the wonderful world of blogs. Excuse me if I bore you with something you already know. I have been focused on starting and writing my own two blogs, so have not really paid that much attention to the rest of blogdom.

A Yahoo search first took me to a short history of blogs, where I found out that the first blogs were written in the early nineties, and then took several years to take hold. Some brilliant IT geek (redundant? Geeks don't have to be brilliant or IT people) wrote blog friendly software, and we have exploded into possibly millions of blogs.

The blog is the diary and journal of our day. Blogs allow us to write diaries and journals, which would have been kept in handwritten notebooks in years past. But one of the reasons blogs are so popular is they fill the need to express ourselves without having to listen the feedback of others. The blog has become the one-person bull session.

Over the years, I have sat in many a bull session in college rooms and bars. I have also had more intimate conversations with others. These communication sessions required one thing that blogging does not. Listening to others! The blog has finally eliminated the requirement of listening to others. Of course, many of us have not listened to others for years.

The blog allows me to get on my soap box without the risk of a jeering crowd. If I get feedback from a reader, I can delete it or not read it. I don't want to, I don't even have to allow others to read my blog. My blog allows me to impress myself to no end with my wit and intelligent observations about those crazy people in the world around me. And who is better at this than me?