Blogosphere Manifesto

It is not my intent to write a blog again.

Correction: It was not my intent to write a blog again.

It was not my intent to publish my life for the masses, nor to hop onto the bandwagon of the “newest, best” mode of mass communication. Now, I’m fully aware that my “hopping on the bandwagon” is already about 4 years too late to be seriously considered so. I had a blog back when all the cool kids had one (I stopped, but I don’t think they did), mostly because I didn’t have access to a computer for awhile. In gaining my freedom, however, I became aware of the nasty habit blogs have of becoming an inward looking mode of mass communication…something that to me felt like a cross between string of incomprehensible inside jokes and exhibitionist masturbation.

This is not what I want. Once back into the blogosphere I incourage, nay require, community participation. It is my intent to use this medium to allow the people around me, at first my friends and later perhaps a larger audience, to have a place where open discussion and a free trade of ideas is sought after and found.

Perhaps this is the wrong medium. The “newest and best” is often really just “newest.” If this is so…well…I guess we’ll find out.

But I intend for us to find out.