Blogging Meme: Gimme three good reasons why you blog

Not that I’m having second thoughts about blogging, I’m not, it’s just that I’ve been perpetually assessing the (obviously not financial) return I get on my blogging ever since my running experiment in blogging began. Still, since I’ve been in a state of quasi-hiatus for a while (and will be for a while, changes in life are keeping me busy) I’ve had a slight and unavoidable change of perspective.

There are a few things that I don’t want to expend effort on. While I’ve had a curiosity about the nature and motives behind netiquette, e-bullying and internet thuggery of totalitarian leanings, I’ve grown increasingly tired of the flaming that surrounds it. The rather unsavory discussion and characters at A Western Heart, and the flame war they have recently had with the perpetually laugh-in-their faces GrodsCorp is an example.

When the western-europhillic types call for violence at Tim Blair’s blog and at The Daily Telegraph it’s both newsworthy and blogworthy. But despite the yuks than can be had, and have been had, stirring the nutters up for a laugh (however funny it or they may be) at their own blog and for an extended period of time seems a waste of GrodsCorp’s energy. On the other hand Jeremy’s fallacy of the distributed middle challenge and the AGWer’s complete and utter failure to rise to the challenge was quite telling though I think.

Maybe the Grods crowd are going easy on Tim Blair’s (clearly more important than AWH) blog because Tim has had cancer problems.

In any case, the flaming doesn’t motivate me at all and provides more of a turn off than it used to.

So what does motivate me? Well I’ll give you three good reasons.

1) To practice my writing and my thinking (even if the latter is done somewhat more casually on my blog than elsewhere) – for their participation, I should also give a shout out to sensible contributors to discussion here as well. It’s appreciated.

2) To keep the lines of communication open – I’ve found the interchange with people on the blogosphere quite informative.

3) Because some people want other people like me to shut-up – ergo I won’t. See embedded YouTube clip for more.

Okay. So now it’s the turn of a few others, but first the “rules” of the meme.

Rule 1) List three reasons for your blogging.

Rule 2)  List the rules.

Rule 3) Tag three others with the meme.

In accordance with rule three, I tag AV, Legal Eagle and Mikey.

~ Bruce