05th May 2008
Hello World, Indeed
It’s been a long time since I’ve been behind the wheel at a blog. Picture me stretching, because that’s what I’ve been doing: re-familiarizing myself with name servers and redirects, getting up to speed on the new technologies available to me.
Truth is, blogging hasn’t changed much. What has changed is the marketing of blogs, and that industry has exploded.
When I pulled the plug on my personal blog in 2005, I knew that blogging wasn’t over for me, but I also knew my next endeavor would have to be something less personal and more topical—but what? Since then I spent some time blogging professionally, but when the company’s blog goals changed, so did my motivation.
So here I am, starting a word blog. A blog about words—what they are, what they make—even, sometimes, what makes them (typography and etymology are fair game, in other words). Other words! Word industries, word games, the spoken word, the written word, lyrics and anti-lyrics. Words, words, and more words.
To ensure a variety of content, I have extended an invitation to at least one other potential word blogger, and we may see more people pop up on this blog as time progresses. Or you may just be stuck with me. Some things I have planned; others will be pure improv.
Why, you ask? Aren’t there plenty of word blogs around? What could I possibly have to add to the blogosphere at this late date?
To quote Henry Miller, a writer whose intensity and proliferation I admire, “Writing is its own reward.” Does the same statement hold if I substitute blogging for writing?
This is not to say that I don’t believe blogging is writing—far from it. But is blogging its own reward, or is the reward elsewhere? In community, in traffic, in financial gain, in credibility, in authority? I know what I got out of my personal blogging endeavor, but I suspect new rewards await me in this next incarnation of the blogger’s I.
I picture myself looking back on this post with amusement. This is how I will go forward: boldly, and with confidence. Join me if you would like. If not, I’m sure I can dig up someone else to come along…
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