The SquizLog

Why blog that?

That's the question my wife, Lynda, asked me the other day.

It was in reference to my brief entry about the slips cradle our cricket club is purchasing. To her it seemed pointless. My answer was that it was a convenient way of me saving the link to the slips cradle site.

It set me thinking about the question: why blog?

Charles put it well in his introduction to blogging when he suggested the following reasons:

• Clarify your own opinions... and then inflict them on others
• Keep a "backup brain"
• Engage in a global conversation
• Raise your profile

The audience of a blog is interesting to ponder. Often I find myself blogging for an audience of one: myself. It can simply be a useful way of collecting links to sites that interest me.

But then, as someone put it, blogging is like shouting from the top of a mountain - you don't know who is going to hear.

Posted to Personal, Weblogs by Keith Pitty