Why I Blog
No, this isn’t becoming a personal blog. But I am playing along with Engtech’s blogging contest. Not so much for the potential lure of random selection for WordPress credits, but more to explore the general issue of “Why People Blog”, which will probably surface in a future post(my bet’s on the next one). I assume that “Why People Blog” has been beaten to death by bloggers everywhere, but I will stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that fact by not reading any of them. Anyhow, why I blog:
I blog to capture the moments between wakefulness and sleep. I have always had ideas lying in bed, trying to fall asleep, because, in the twilight moments of the mind, what can you do but think? I would bolt out of bed, grab a pen and scribble furiously on tiny post-its, because that’s all I have readily available at my desk. At first, the ideas were random, stories, poems, DaVincian contraptions and bizarre insects, journeys in brain crevices. But, for the past couple years, undoubtedly influenced by my reading(I devour tech blogs voraciously), my half-asleep ideas became more focused, more polished. Now, they are plans for startups, tech ideas, analysis of social networks, tech memes and the blogosphere, hacks and gadgets, etc. The tech I read about every day has infused my sleepy moments to such a degree that they have become inseparable. Before writing any post(yes, including this one), I ask myself: Is this something I would want to read? Would I be interested in reading this if I stumbled across it as I do on hundreds of blog posts daily? A lot of the time, the answer is no. And so, every night, in my final hours of wakefulness, thoughts race like bullet trains through my head and linger in my dreams. A few of these thoughts make it onto these pages, because, if they are not fleshed out and developed somewhere, they will dissapear forever. As for the rest of them- every night, as my mind resists sleep, a few more crumpled Post-Its join the bizarre anthill of discarded ideas that so relentlessly draws my daily final thoughts.
For the record, I spent about 10 minutes writing that last sentence and I still hate it.
Okay maybe this blog is getting a little meta. Blogging about blogging ,which engtech rightly compares to masturbation. After all, this blog is largely about the Internet and the new ways in which units of information spread. New units of information, traveling in novel ways. Neomemes, if you will.
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