What is a blog, anyway?
Some people who have blogs – write things that others are interested in reading. The variety of subjects is wide – sports, news, religion, politics, gardening. There is a blog for just about anything. You name it – it exists. Some blogs become so popular – that the owners are able to get revenue from their writings and ramblings. Making a living giving your informed opinion and if not a full living, well then you have some spending cash in today’s difficult times.
Others have a blog because it is the thing to do – you know, everyone is doing it now. And they go on supposing from day to day or month to month or however often they take the time to give their opinion on a few kilobytes of space on a hard-drive located in a Washington D.C. server farm – that their opinion matters to someone – other than themselves. So, a blog in this form or fashion is somewhat self-serving – or pretentious. But that’s okay, because people generally are as such.
In my day, I have been called many things. Pretentious and self-serving – well, I don’t hear those too much – but I imagine that there are some more revered folk in the world who would stick that label on me in an email to their pals – but not to my face. That’s okay. Because people generally are as such.
All to say, this blog is really about….. nothing.
Every once in awhile – I get the notion that my opinion means something outside of my head – and I spit it out – out onto the world wide web. And what does it really mean? What does it really matter? Not much more than a hill of chickpeas.
I am curious where those notions come from. Certainly not from eating chickpeas.
BTW – Nice new look.
I view it as “public journaling”. I like to look back and read stuff from 4 years ago that would have been lost as sand through the hour glass.
And for exploring ideas. Throw something out there and see where it takes ya.