Blogs, blogging, bloggers

After reading a post on the excellent Over The Ages Wisdom blog where the question was raised about why commenting wasn't so popular, I decided to comment with my take on the phenomenon. However, having done so it actually made me think more deeply about why I create this stuff and why others might too.

To be honest, it was the starting of the above blog that got me thinking why didn't I do it? I had done some writing previously but mostly as a sort of therapy when I was hacked off with something. It was created on a blogging site but I never promoted it.

So what changed and why start again now?

I guess that a certain amount of vanity was involved in that I felt I could still write creatively and also there were things rattling around in my head that I perhaps wanted to get off my chest.

Seeing Carol's blog take shape, I realised that if I did do something, it wouldn't follow as disciplined an approach of trying to create something each day. I preferred to only create a post when I felt the need to do so.

Taking that as read, I accepted that even if my posts were sporadic, they might cause some debate and I feel that is always good.

Bloggers?

As I've explained, there is probably a certain amount of vanity involved in why bloggers do what they do, a feeling that they have something worthwhile to say along with an arrogance that other people should know what they think.

In addition though, there is a perverse pleasure in seeing if what you write gets a reaction. This might explain why a lack of comments becomes a little frustrating. For me though the proof of the pudding is not the comments but the page view statistics that I believe most of the blogging sites happily provide you with. Not having created that much so far I can't claim success in the last measure but you never know.

What do you think?

As you can imagine, I don't expect much in the way of feedback from this article even if there is a comments button, but hopefully it will get fellow bloggers thinking.

Well what do you know

I've managed to recover my old blog so if you are interested, you can find it at The Loneliness of The Long Distance Drummer and see if my writing style has changed from the time between 2007 and 2011 when I created it and what I'm waffling about now.

The title of the blog will definitely surprise Carol.