Blogging is a Good Thing

In theory, I think blogging is a really good idea.

• It helps keep you in contact with people
• It exercises writing skills
• Writing about an issue forces you to think about it deeply and more critically
• It allows you to share ideas, and therefore have an impact on the world.

In practice, however, whenever I've tried to get a blog rolling, I always abandon it within a few months, which is frustrating to both me and to the few kind souls who actually read it. But I don't think its an inherent problem with me or with blogging - I think my blogging philosophy has been askew. And recently, I've been having a lot of thoughts I think are worth sharing, and no medium to do so.

So I'm going to try again, and this time, I make the following resolutions. They should help me keep posting, and hopefully make for more interesting reading:

• If I have something interesting to say, I will post it, even if I only have time to write a few sentences.
• If I don't have something interesting to say, I won't worry about posting.
• I won't worry about who might be reading - this blog is a reflection of what I am thinking about, and people will either find it interesting or they won't.

So... yes! That is all.