Let's see...

So I've been hearing about this movement - blogging - for a while now. I'm intrigued.

I was giving this topic some serious thought today, between waiting for the shuttle bus and reading a book, and thought I would actually go try this out and try to understand the popularity of blogging.

The overarching goal of this blog will to be to explore why people blog and what is so compelling about it. As part of accomplishing that goal, I hope to read plenty of other peoples' blogs (my goal is at least one new one a day - let's see how long that lasts), post my own thoughts and material (whatever comes to mind - and believe me, there's a lot of random crap in my mind) and of course to use this as an online medium to explore pretty much everything and anything I want to.

I thought I would start my exploration with trying to figure out why, while waiting at the Star Ferry terminal for my shuttle bus, I felt compelled to write. Not just write, but to write something that people would read.

And I suppose that is at the core of blogging. It speaks to the basic human desire to feel like your opinion means something. At least it speaks to my desire to feel like my thoughts count. So I think human vanity may have something to do with it. The desire for approval (I AM hoping that at least someone reads it and thinks well of what I put down) and validation.

My methodology will be to write whatever I want to each time I post, but to be able to think, at the end of my post, about why I wrote and posted what I did that day. It may cover anything from movie reviews (likes or dislikes), my personal life and work and career. Basically, anything that's important enough, confusing enough or anger inducing enough to make me want to write about it.

I welcome any comments from anyone - especially on why they blog. However, I'm guessing that not too many people will comment - especially considering the relative obscurity.

Well, here goes world... I'm putting myself and my thoughts out there. Let's see where this leads.