And Now Time for a Thought from Josh Burke:
There is nothing like a social experiment that gets my blood pumping. People in general fascinate me. What makes them tick, what they are thinking, why they use the words they use. What can I say I love to observe people and come up with my own conclusions to my own questions about them. Which leads us to the current phenomenon of blogging. This is the latest of things that I have been so, I don't know, annoyed about. The thought that I have something sooo important to say that literally the world needs access to it. I once vowed NEVER TO BLOG. Last Wednesday as I was talking to Jason Pelt, I realized that this is an opportunity to run a social experiment. I vowed to blog every day in the month of July. If I do so I am not really sure what the benefit is, but if I don't I have a few people to buy Starbucks for. The outcome of this social experiment I will post on the last day of July.
4 comments:
Great Post, I can't wait to see the fruits of the blog-o-rama. Just think, for the entire month of July you will be, just by the mere fact of daily blog post, at the top of my blog list. Good Luck Josh.
I, too, have been annoyed about the blogging craze ever since it started to become popular many years ago. My annoyance hits particular high notes when I read blogs by people whose intent is to share their "profound insight" with the rest of the world in subject areas in which they clearly have no expertise. However, and to play devil's advocate, I believe there are very good uses for the world of bloggers. To name a few: keep in touch with family and share pictures, keep in touch with friends in a cheap but somewhat meaningful way, to keep a condensed form of one's journal allowing others to comment on it, to share ideas with colleagues. I think the tendency for many bloggers is to become pretentious regarding the usefulness of their blog, especially when they start noting how many readers or reciprocal links they have between theirs and other blogs.
I, on the other hand, take a different approach. First, I understand that my readers are few and are limited to our small band of fellow bloggers (know your audience). Second, I do recognize that each of us do have some expertise in our chosen professions and it's useful, if only somewhat anecdotal sometimes, to share some of that professional insight with friends and family. Lastly, I consider blogging somewhat of an art form in that it is a form of writing, albeit disorganized and raw, and doesn't have to be much different from writing poetry, song lyrics, or even great novels. True, few people have the talent to pull something like that off, and I still feel I haven't found my niche in the blogging world and I may not - not totally concerned with that either. Blogging is fun, though sometimes cathartic and maybe even a little bit egocentric.
my hypothesis is that after a month of straight blogging you are going to HATE it, and be contented in your original conclusions :)
BUT you'll still say some significant things that help me and other people think about life and God, and THAT will prove our point. The blog has social value.
soon, you will see things and think to your self, "how can i turn this into a bog?"
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