Getting Wet Slowly

It's been almost two months since I first created this blog. Well, like the title says, I am getting into this slowly.

Unlike a lot of other people who blog, I am not usually talkative in person. However, I find myself enjoying the process of writing my thoughts, or my streams of consciousness, as my Creative Writing instructor used to say, and let my trains of thought take me where ever the journey will go. You can't do that in person, in a conversation, or people will think you are crazy, or rude, or lack social graces, or all of the above. In a blog, you can ramble on, and people will just click on. It's nothing personal.

So why do people blog? Is it a sense of self-importance? Is it a need for self-expression, for self actualization, a need to be heard, to say, "I am here!"

More than likely, I think it is the sign of the times, the "prosumer" that Alvin Toffler mentioned in the Third Wave. It is the same with podcasting. Althougth I haven't tried it yet, I suspect podcasting is remarkably similar to karaoke, except it is blogging in stereo.

What would Mr. Montaigne say?