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Why do we blog?

I did a presentation tonight about weB LOGS and I tried to address two major questions.
1. What is a blog?
2. What is a blog for?

The first one is easy if you talk structure because the basic building blocks of blogs appear similar enough once you know what to look for.

The harder question to answer is "What do I do with a blog?". The most common answer I hear ("Anything you want") is not specific or descriptive enough. Another comment made makes sense too: 'If there are people out there that can write better than me and they have more time to write than I do, why should I blog?'
Of course the idea of the blog presentation was to spark the imagination not find all the answers. With a blog you can either share your information (post) or collect (read) others' shared information. Good Blogs need both activities.
People didn't know what spreadsheets were used for when they first came out. It takes time and practice to learn. Will blogging have as much effect on publishing information in the future as spreadsheets impacted how we handled rows and columns? Who knows.

Several things I do know:
- My blog is not perfect. Because I have limited time to devote to writing and editing, each post is a compromise between time-to-perfect and good enough.
- My blog could be better. I could research more, link more, post more often, etc.
- Blogs are important. The sharing of information and ideas is always valuable.
- My voice, like yours if you post or comment, can be read by anyone, anywhere there is internet access.

I blog because I want to get out of myself and find out what this blogsphere is all about. I have a long way to go.

posted by Kev @ 1/12/2005 11:30:00 PM