The Trouble with Blogs

I, for one, hope that you can appreciate the irony of somebody choosing the above topic for their first blog post, instead of, for example, “Let ME tell YOU about ME”. But, please, bear with me.

The problem with blogs, is that they are, in fact, blogs. That is to say, they are detailed and regular reports that someone gives about their personal lives and thoughts, which are then paraded around on the internet.

Now, speaking as an introverted and procrastinational person, you’ll understand that I should, technically, be the last person to be posting a blog. But I have my reasons. And here they are. All two of them.

One: As a student currently undergoing a series of (quite interesting) lectures regarding Attention as a resource and how the internet makes it an ever more valuable resource, we have recently been exposed to a lecturer named Dave Duarte, and even more exposed to the concept of blogs. He suggested we try them out, and I, seeing no reason why not, am doing so, in my bid to grab, however briefly, some of your Attention.

Two: I believe (actually firmly hope) that there are lots of people out there, who, like me, cannot go through a single day without having several interesting ideas that they feel they must either (a) immediately tell everyone about, or (b) write down in order to perform (a) at a later stage. Therefore, a medium such as blogging (which consists entirely of thoughts that have occurred to one during the day) allows me to perform (b) to people who are at least mildly interested in what I’m talking about.

So what are my problems with blogging? Well, my thoughts don’t often make sense to other people (nor, occasionally, myself), so sharing them with people I do not know is going to be akin to going uphill without a 4×4 (or down a certain creek without…but no). But I shall persevere in the face of idiocy (mine, mostly), lunacy (again, mine) and bloody-mindedness (guess).

The second is that blogs need to be regular. An irregular blog is frustrating to the reader, and an even more irregular blog is a dead blog. There are more dead blogs, floating around in the internet ether, than there are current, upbeat ones. I am not a regular person (in more ways than one). So it follows that my blog will not be a regular blog (in more ways than one).

But I laugh in the face of my own shortcomings. If you are reading this, it means that I, as the writer, give you my full and unconditional guarantee that there will be a fresh posting, in this space, every Wednesday morning and Sunday night, Southern African time.

Thank you for reading.

Bontage.

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