I think I have started somewhere between 7 and 10 blogs in the past, but I have never been able to muster the discipline to follow through with any of them. Of these, my favorite was an attempt to write an epistolary novel told through a series of blog posts. The attempt lasted about seven posts because I never had a clear vision of where the story was going. I likened this method of storytelling not only to the traditional epistolary novel where the story is told through a series of letters, but also to the Dickensian serial where portions of the work are published in increments.
I bring this up, because in light of the proliferation of Web 2.0 technologies, blogging still has a foot in the realm of traditional information dissemination. In many ways, it is the simplest of the new information tools because it is a recognizable cousin of the "archaic" personal journal or diary.
With this in mind, with this blog I will attempt to not only share whatever musings happen to tickle my fancy at any given time (such as books I am reading, movies I have seen, my pets, etc.) I will also try to touch on aspects of technology and how they are reshaping our world into something that is still not altogether alien.
Hi Richard, You are not alone in starting blogs and then losing interest. Personally, they seem to me like a diary, which I have never been motivated to keep. But they can be useful for organizations. They are much easier to create and update than websites. And, if there is a clear purpose and target audience, employees could be tapped to be regular blog contributors. That way no one person will be responsible for keeping it interesting and fresh. The Smithsonian's "Around the Mall" blog shares interesting stories; one posted 9/1/11 tells of Martha, the last surviving member of the passenger pigeon species who died 9/1/1914 but is still on display in the Museum of Natural History. Good way to mark an anniversary; in this case one that reminds us of the importance of the conservation movement to save species. See http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/
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