A Year Later
Looking back, I was somewhat surprised to find that a year had passed since I first started blogging. Happy Birthday to my blog.
I took this opportunity to look back at some of the reasons I started blogging. I felt this was especially appropriate after a talk at CHI that had an apathetic, if not negative, approach toward blogging (and an audience member who “detests” blogs and is convinced that they’ll be all gone in 2 years).
I hold to my original opinion from last year’s Online Deliberation conference – saying you don’t read blogs is like saying you don’t read books. There are tons of crap blogs out there, but there are also tons of crap books. But that doesn’t mean that blogs will fall by the wayside all together.
In the end, I think it traces back to the blogger’s motivation. Like I originally said, this blog is primarily for me. And having a writing outlet for whatever crosses my mind isn’t likely to go away in 2 years, even if blogs become less popular in the mainstream. So let’s all raise our glasses to many more years of blogging – or, at least 2 more years to prove a point to the crabby guy from the CHI conference.