Why I started a blog...

To understand why I started a blog, its best to understand why I didn't want to start a blog.  First of all, I hate the idea of sitting in front of my computer for hours on end and to that end I have been extremely hesitant of engaging the internet for all that it is worth.  Being a computer geek may be inevitable but I will not go down without a fight.  In fact, as I am writing this blog, I just received an instant message from a female friend.  She says, "fyi for future conversations with girls, never admit that making a website is fun." 

Secondly, I think that "blog" is the most unattractive word in the English language.  Finally, one of the problems with the internet is that anyone with a connection can say anything they want to about anything they feel like and to the untrained eye its very difficult to determine if they have any authority or real knowledge of the subject.  I always saw bloggers (second ugliest word) as very arrogant people, I mean who would think so highly of themselves as to post everything thought they had to the internet as a guiding light for the masses?  If Alan Greenspan or Warren Buffett want to write a blog, fine, Ill read that anyday because they have established themselves as experts in their respective fields, but you sir, posting blogs after your 9-5 job at Dunder Mifflin?  Why on earth should I listen to you?  And why on earth do you think you should be heard?

Now, heres why I started a blog.  My good friend Cameron Schaefer has been urging me to for months.  He calmed my fears about the word, explaining that "blog" is actually short for "web log", and I have no problem with logs, whether they be web logs, Linkin Logs or logging logs (actually I might have a problem with logging logs, unless your replanting those trees).

I have come to really appreciate the internet, thank you Al Gore for inventing such a contraption.  The web offers so many valuable resources if only we know where to look.  Blogs, I have realized, are an incredible medium for idea-sharing in a technologically advanced, if not personally disconnected, world.  It takes a certain sense of humility, not arrogance, to publish a blog because you are submitting your thoughts and your writing to the largest audience of critics ever assembled. 

Sharing your ideas and allowing your peers to dissect them is a win-win situation.  When reading a blog you can take bits and pieces of each idea and deposit them for later use, meanwhile offering your 2 cents to build on the idea.

Finally, I am always thinking and I just like to write.  I want to share what's going on in my head and heart, and in the meantime become a better writer and thinker. 

So that's why I started a blog. 

I am not sure what to tell you to expect from this blog, it will most likely be a random assortment of delicious flavors.  Take what you want, leave what you don't and feel free to rip my ideas to shreds, thats why I started a blog!

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