My blogging
Dec. 5th, 2006 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumI write a personal blog. Those of you who flatter me by regular reading get to see cookery, aikido, the ramblings of my travels, some discusion of the art/craft of photography (as well as the occaisional picture). You also read about my dogs, snakes, the weather, the law (in it's misery, and majesty) and some of my personal life.
Added to that is the reason so many of you seem to have shown up, poltics (Yes, Bear, a lot of those you can take the credit for, though some have stumbled in from my hobby-horses in other fora).
Why do I do it... I could keep a journal, but I've tried that. It's more introspective, and things I wouldn't write in public are written in a few, but I'm a social animal. I like to share, so the chance for feedback is what keeps me going.
I also have passions (torture, being the one most people in the Blogosphere know me for, though aikido, cooking, gardening, and photography rate higher, in an absolute sense), and sharing them with like-minded people is nice.
But those aren't what make it truly worthwhile, why I put up with the various slings and arrows which come my way. An friend of mine is an author, he's said he writes about things which pain him. When I look at his work (the output of more than 40 years) I can see that.
My political rants tend to be the same.
I used to be a journalist. People enter journalism because they want to make the world a better place.
Most who try it end up as I did, not working in the press. Those who have made it, as a class, have failed us.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden has a brilliant post detailing how they've failed. I was going to spout off on the subject, but she has a much more detailed, and wide-ranging, explantion of how they've failed us, and why she blogs.
In a lot of ways (with different subjects, and some overlap) her writing is much like mine, if better.
Added to that is the reason so many of you seem to have shown up, poltics (Yes, Bear, a lot of those you can take the credit for, though some have stumbled in from my hobby-horses in other fora).
Why do I do it... I could keep a journal, but I've tried that. It's more introspective, and things I wouldn't write in public are written in a few, but I'm a social animal. I like to share, so the chance for feedback is what keeps me going.
I also have passions (torture, being the one most people in the Blogosphere know me for, though aikido, cooking, gardening, and photography rate higher, in an absolute sense), and sharing them with like-minded people is nice.
But those aren't what make it truly worthwhile, why I put up with the various slings and arrows which come my way. An friend of mine is an author, he's said he writes about things which pain him. When I look at his work (the output of more than 40 years) I can see that.
My political rants tend to be the same.
I used to be a journalist. People enter journalism because they want to make the world a better place.
Most who try it end up as I did, not working in the press. Those who have made it, as a class, have failed us.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden has a brilliant post detailing how they've failed. I was going to spout off on the subject, but she has a much more detailed, and wide-ranging, explantion of how they've failed us, and why she blogs.
In a lot of ways (with different subjects, and some overlap) her writing is much like mine, if better.
