My thoughts on blogging

Today, over the radio, a DJ commented that "Bloggers are idiots" and goes on to say that the comment "It is not personal." I had a good mind to call in to the radio station and say that all DJs are idiots and my comment is not personal. Blogging is nothing more than a tool. Before blogging, we had the normal HTML. Publishing things on the Internet was a bit more difficult, since you needed to learn HTML. Then tools started to appear and they made homepage publishing so much more simpler. Yet there is still the need to upload the updated pages onto the server. Blogging is a great tool for homepage publishing that takes simplifies the process. It is easy to edit your pages. It is easy to post pages to the server. So blogging is not that much different from publishing homepages. If bloggers "are idiots", then so are all those who have published homepages in the past.

I would prefer to think of it as a means of expressing our thoughts, of sharing our experiences and even knowledge with others. Just as DJs share their opinions over national radio, and columnists share theirs in their newspaper columns, and authors share theirs in their books, bloggers share with people through their blogs. So bloggers aren't that much different from everyone else that share with others. And similarly, just as you can choose to skip reading a column, don't pick up a book, or switch to another radio station, you can always choose not to read the blog.