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03/07/2002 Archived Entry: "Why I've been so afraid to write a blog"
It took me a long time to get around to starting a blog. I thought it was kind of geeky. I knew that some critics laughed at people who wrote blogs. But in the end, I decided to write because I wanted to practice writing. I wanted to get back into the swing of it. I haven't written anything even remotely creative since high-school.
It is definitely self-indulgent, this type of writing. Who knows who will read it? Who cares? Is there any body out there?
Erika Meyer has written a great piece about web diaries. In it she tells us why it's okay to ignore the group of popular kids in the corner laughing at all the people writing blogs.
Web writing is different at its very core. Words (and for that matter, images) on the Web are not set in stone, clay, paper, ink, or any other long-lasting material. On the Web, words are made of pixels – of electricity – of light. How could words made of light behave anything like words made of stone?
And on that note, I think I'm done for the day.