Time for An Update

In this article, Andrew Sullivan writes "Blogger could be to words what Napster was to music..." It is dated 2002. I wonder if we have reached that point yet?

I have been blogging on and off since 2001. I think there are two camps: those of us who publish for ourselves, and those who try to gain some kind of popular audience by focusing on a specific subject.

I don't consider myself to be an expert of anything. Sure, I could have joined the ranks of the mommy bloggers after I had my daughter in 2000, chronicling every detail of DD's life as she grew. I could have written a cross-stitch blog, or a writing blog, or whatever. Instead, I chose to write about things I found interesting and to write conversationally about my life.

Blogging is definitely the publishing choice of the masses. For most people, it's free and easy and you can expound on any topic you choose. Alas, that makes it hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. I used to check several blogs on a daily basis, but those writers quit writing online. That was disappointing because I, as a reader, was fascinated with their lives.

I think I've written before about what kind of blogs I like to read, so I won't reiterate it here. It will be interesting in the future to see what kind of lasting effects blogs have on media.