Wednesday, December 28, 2005
else what's a blog for?
Many of the bloggers I enjoy on an almost daily basis have been musing about whether they'll continue or change focus or take time off or what. Several ceased during the year and several have started anew but different. Undoubtedly this is partly a side effect of the casualness of the form. And some impetus may be in a not uncommon malaise that I've noticed often settles in between the frenzy of Win-hanu-holi-kwanz-mas-rama-satur-sol-ter-kah-stice (f/k/a Christmas) and the new year. I didn't observe this phenomenon last year, however, so find myself wondering if something is afoot in blogland that's giving rise to a midwinter moment of discontent. (Am I mixing enough literary references?) It can be a quandary to decide what to write about at times, but one of the unexpected pleasures both of reading and of writing in this genre (is it a genre?) is finding joy as well as wisdom, wit and genuine insight in mundane observations and thoughts that turn out not to be mundane in the least. What's your reason for reading and/or writing blogs?

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Anonymous Anonymous — at 11:57 AM, December 29, 2005:
What's my reason...? Hmmmm... I really can't think of anything except that I'm drawn to the community and, once in a while, I have something that I'd really like to tell the world. Of course, the whole world isn't reading but there's a little bit of satisfaction in putting it out there on the Internet where anyone can see it and fantasizing about a link from one of the A-listers.
 

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