WHY BLOG? - Unless its interesting

After a discussion with a friend (the chap who produced that 'portrait' of me below).. It has come to light that some form statement of purpose for this blog should be established.

Actually, I was wondering what is the point of blogging.. My friend thought it was about trying to produce content that people want to read.. i.e. Self-consciously 'writing' to an audience... I suppose I am unselfconsciously writing to an audience... He found that hard to stomach.. I guess its weird, particularly if someone you know reads your blog.. Not sure about what to do next... Maybe abandon, or restructure blog.. I am after all bearing my soul which he finds indulgent and uninteresting. It’s fascinating how different his and my understanding of the Internet is..

For me its democratised interpersonal space, without editorial rule.. It allows for both good and bad. I mean of course no one would wish for the print published anthology of every excruciating angst filled timeline of my life.. But then also its freedom of expression in the form of a public journal. It occupies a space which no other medium does, so to shut it down would result in the already heavily corporate control over content.. Blogging is wide, in fact as wide as human experience. The more blogging takes us into people's lives the more we can feel that our experience's are not unique. There is a beauty in everyone being a writer, writing their own stories.. Of course technology is not democratic, so its a narrow field in which people expressing themselves, but it is a start.

So I stand by my blog, and all others, hoping that the validity is in its sincerity and banality. After all its life as I know it.

Watch this space..........