What is a Blog?

I’m not going to make a habit of this, I promise. But the subject matter of today’s blog will be mainly ….er…. blogging. Just a couple of observations, and I’ll leave it at that. But it occurred to me that the reason so many blogs have as their main theme as “blogging” is quite simple. You write about what you know (or learn) and what you do. And, unless you’re very careful, the main thing you do when you start a blog is, well, blog. It’s a kind of recursive phenomenon. The more you blog, the less you do anything else, and the less choice of subject matter you have to write about!

When I say blogging, I’m not just talking about the physical act of writing the content of each post. There are all those supplementary but highly necessary activities. You get embroiled in time-consuming occupations like Search Engine Optimisation, social networking, and of course subscribing to online blogging forums.

I (inevitably) have signed up to a couple of forums which I follow, and sometimes contribute to if something grabs my attention. Recently a thread was started with the title “What is a blog?”. Pretty fundamental stuff, and potentially quite interesting I guessed. Wrongly! One post had the audacity to simply put a link to Wikipedia’s main article on blogging. Time to inject something a little more stimulating I thought - controversial even. So I contributed with, “A blog is something you create when you’re egocentric enough to believe that the world is actually interested in what you have to say“.

So far no one has replied to dispute this view. So it could be true!

Finally, no post on this blog would be complete without a cartoon. Today the subject is…. Guess what?

Cartoon about being a blogger