I've been slow to join the blogosphere because I've had a hard time getting the concept of exactly what kind of venue a blog is for staging my thoughts. I don't typically enjoy going on political diatribes and a blog just doesn't seem like the place for airing the intimate details of my life. So why have a blog? Who will read it anyway? I don't know.
Last night a friend told me about his blog that he keeps up on a somewhat regular basis. He started it with the idea that it would give him a way to enter into a dialogue with a wide variety of people that he wouldn't necessarily interact with outside of the blogosphere. I like that approach. It seems that most blogs I've read are "for insiders only" and aren't really inviting of different opinions unless it's to start a rabid fight over politics that ends up as a rhetorical spitting match. So I'm starting this blog with the hope that I can eventually find a group of bloggers that want to share ideas and argue differing points of view in a way that really tries to get at something honest and real instead of just using the blogosphere as a platform for belittling others.
Okay, maybe I'm being too grandiose in my reasoning for "why I blog." I'll probably just end up using it to talk about the weather and show off cute pictures of our 7 month old. But wherever it goes from here, at least I now have my first official blog posting.
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