blogging?

travelin' oma assignment number fourteen

some people have parents who are very computer illiterate, but i am lucky to have parents who know their way around computers very well. my dad has been working with computers (hardware and software) for years and definitely knows far more about computers than i. my uncle, who works with my dad, also knows technology well and has his finger on the pulse of up-and-coming trends in the techno world.

several years ago, this same uncle mentioned "blogging," at a family dinner as a new thing that was happening on the internet. i remember him talking about people essentially publishing their journals on the internet for the whole world to see and thinking that, while it was an interesting concept, not much would really come of it.

wrong.

here i am.

so, how would i describe my blog hobby to someone unfamiliar with blogging? this is a hard question because i think that blogging has become very diverse in the few years that it has been in existence. there are different types of blogging communities out there. some are collaborative in nature, some are instructive, some are purely creative, and some are, as my uncle said, essentially people publishing their journals online. i wouldn't say that i am publishing my journal online, because this is certainly not my journal, however, i would say that it is similar in nature. it is a looser version of my journal. journalesque thoughts that i am comfortable sharing with everyone.

sometimes i feel like it is a collection of emails to those that care to check in on me in this online sphere. emails that often have pictures attached to them. it is a collection of random thoughts that i want to share with people in an unobtrusive way. i just float them out there and people can come look at them if they want to. that is how it is different than an email or letter, i suppose - i don't expect a response. i am not targeting any reader in particular. comments are always welcome and enjoyed, but quite frankly, i have no idea who or how many people actually look at my blog.

i recently read an article about a woman who did her thesis on "mommy blogs." not all of the article focuses on her thesis, but towards the end it focuses on it more and she talks about some of the reasons that women make blogs, especially why lds women make blogs. i thought she had some interesting insights and agree with a lot of what she said.

i think this was a bit of a rambling post that strayed a bit from the original prompt. but hey, that is what blogging allows for, right?