In the spirit of blogging

Matt Butler thinks I delivered a low blow by pointing out that his blog had not been updated in months. Rather a gentle nudge, thinks I, to get him to post. The solution to the comment spam problem he’s encountered is fairly simple: upgrade to the current version of WordPress. Hey, it’s free (as in beer)!

One thing I do enjoy is reading other people’s blogs. I subscribe to Matt’s RSS feed (and 98 others) and have missed his entries on drunken Santa, etc. I’ve been thrilled recently by the increase in the number of people I know from offline who are blogging now. People I knew from college. People I know who work at my university. People I’ve met various places over the years. It’s all very interesting.

The question at the back of my mind is: will it last? Blogging has become something of a trend in the past year or two, and perhaps it will be nothing more than a fad. I’ve been doing it for five years, and enjoy it even more now than I did back in 2000 when there were very few people doing online personal writing.

So to conclude this rumination, I’d like to point Matt to my five year anniversary post from February that I called Ten Things I’ve Learned About Blogging. It may help answer the question: is blogging for me?