To blog or not to blog

Hi world,

I discovered blogs fairly naturally from the internet itself, i.e. no one actually told me anything about it and neither have I read this from the press. Being sub- average surfer, I discovered it very late. Initially I thought to myself, these to be average personal web pages of private persons, introducing her/himself to the wired (or weird) world. You know, everyone like to be felt present in this world. Internet provides one with the mean. One need not be a Michael Jackson, or a Michael Ballack or a Michael Moore anymore, to be seen and heard. Never mind, the audience need to search you in the maze of the net, unless you keep on informing them where your pages are.

Then, I realised to my surprise that some include comments on current, future and yet to come issues and some have active participations of the wider internet audience in forms of discussions and posts. Wow, I thought. This is something interesting. This platform is not only to have one presence in the web world felt but most importantly, this is a media to express oneself in electronic prints with some means to design the layouts as well putting images. It costs nothing to publish. Fantastic! You are more or less your own journalist, your own graphic designer, your own art director - of a journal. Albeit, an electronic one. What else, some bloggers indirectly earn part of their living writing blogs, i.e. by receiving fees for adverts appearing on their blogs. Okay, these are the big shots of blogs but, then I’m simply trying to illustrate the possibilities these offer. No, no, I am not trying to find out ways to make money out of these.

Naturally I have subjects that I feel like writing about but, with no audience to address to, it’s not much of a fun. Subjects keep coming and going in my head but, it’s of no value if it simply flies through the ether. My blog is going to be an open one, open to all issues; current, past and future. It will be kind of as it comes principle. All I need is to write it down. I desperately need to. Not to blog would mean a danger to me.

As Charles Bukowski, the beat generation poet puts it:
“These words I write keeps me from total madness”.

Thus, I begin to blog,......................