RockDr’s Web Log

OK. So I couldn’t resist leaving the classic subject line “Hello world!” for my first official blog post . At least the first one that I half expect someone might someday read.

Honestly I’m not sure where I’m going with this.

Why blog?

My overriding reason against for resisting it so far is a feeling I’m probably not egotistical enough to do a blog. The more I look around at blogs the more I think it really is true what I heard at the “Future of Web Apps” conference: “never underestimate the egos of bloggers”. A lot of blogs give me the impression that the only reason someone regularly blog, unless it’s a part of their business, is that they have a really big ego. It seems like that is what it would take to believe that people all over the web really want to read your half-baked thoughts you post in a few spare minutes every once in a while.

On the other hand, at the same conference, I got really excited about the idea. It really gets back to what I love about the web, what fascinated me with it in the first place and keeps me going: universal publishing and global availability of information. I’ll probably never forget a statement from the keynote speaker at a MacWorld conference in the mid-90’s who said that the web represents “the possibility that everyone on the planet would have access to the sum total of all human knowledge”.

Obviously that’s a bit over the top, but what excites my passions about the web and keeps me engaged with my work is indeed the scalability, the fact that one can go to the relatively simple effort of publishing a basic web page with good information and hundreds or thousands of people may read it over time.

The more I got to looking at other people’s blogs the more I thought I could certainly do as well, or better, and type some interesting things. But why? For what motivation?

So this blog is essentially an experiment so far as I’m concerned. I’ll try to create a quality post once in a while when the spirit moves me and I think I have a topic worth writing about, and we’ll see where it goes.