further thoughts on blogs and blogging

Blogs have been around barely ten years. Some before then but few, even fewer were the beginnings of weblogs back before AlGore invented the Internet. By mid 2009 there are more than 100 million existing blogs and growing each second worldwide. The majority of these blogs will quickly drop - like this one I'm certain - become internet waste due to fleeting interest, loss of initial romantic notion of having a blog, maybe a forgotten password or two. Plus it's very difficult to continue to maintain anything on a consistent and regular basis. It's like doing the dishes or cleaning the basement - things you have to do and will do, but not daily. Right? Well, dishes is bad example but you get the idea. It's very difficult to commit to a task that does not include a salary, involve the betterment of your family or give a clear or intangible benefit of some sort.

But they will continue. With each lost and forgotten weblog, another two and three will take its place. The interesting part is finding a solid voice of words, a consistent source of entertainment, news, culture and enlightenment, and knowing it will continually give to the reader fortunate enough to have come across such a thing. The blog.