Its been over a year since I started blogging here. Unlike with previous blogs, I have managed to update this one fairly frequently and hope to continue to do so in the future.
One of the reasons I periodically abandon blogging is that I write for people I know or for myself. With a blog you cannot be sure that people you know will read it and given its public nature it does not function as a personal scrapbook either. In all probability, hardly anyone reads the blog. Yet, when I write, the very fact that its notionally a public forum can change the way I write. An email to friends, the notebook in my cupboard and a posting on the blog all vary. Of all these, a posting on the blog is my least favourite mode of expression. But it is easier and so I continue.
Initially I had intended to put up small essays and eschew the visual. Again, the nature of blogging is such that you cannot really express anything formally (perhaps other blogs do but I personally find it hard to write a post that is not casual). Further, linking to other sites and pics becomes an easy way to "update" your site and whilst it has its joys, it also feels lazy. Consequently, I don't always enjoy what I have written in a blog and periodically return to my journal only to abandon it again.
On the plus side, Blogger is not the best tool around but it did get me interested in structuring a website and the way it functions as a electronic pillow book, albeit with less lofty ambitions. Right now I don't have the time or inclination to change the present set-up but it is something I would like to explore.
