Why do you blog?

by keif on April 29, 2008

This becomes the paradigm of blogging in general - and I’ve pondered this thanks to a comment Andrea Hill left me the other day.

Why do you blog?

I maintain a few (I have a Livejournal, too!) and I determine what I want to put where, and why that blog exists. I determine what vibe I want the blog to portray. I originally kept a very rigid divide between anything I ever wrote - I wanted it to be anonymous, I wanted to be untouchable. Now I write for a few blogs (some more than others).

This blog is mine - it’s all about me, and I use it as an outward facing blog so I can write about my successes and failures, my writing, my thoughts, and whatever I think is amusing. I use it as an excuse to write about what I’ve learned, code I’m learning/playing with.

On another blog, I may focus on a niche topic. Something that is introspective, or a topic I want to learn more about (and share what I’ve learned, still).

It’s a matter of personal freedom to stand behind what I write
and if I’m wrong - so be it, lesson learned. But you can’t be proven wrong unless you put it out there.

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