My good friend, Michelle, encouraged me to start my own blog yesterday afternoon during our cubical discussion about writing. I have never considered "blogging" as a form of "writing," since I always thought of it as a process of creating strings of "0s" and "1s," which are nonsensical in themselves, into something personal and meaningful. But as soon as you click on "Save" or "Send" or whatever the icon it is to deploy your intellectual creations (mine is "Publish Post"), those strings will simply get lost in the infinite oblivion of the Web, sort of like how it was in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, where there were hundreds of zebras crowding at one water hole, and one (meaning one human) could never tell one zebra apart from another. I never thought anybody would be interested in anyone else's blogs unless they were looking for specific information, such as (my husband's usual searches) "Steinway or Vogel - A Buyer Review" or "Where to Visit in New England With Your Kids?" or one of my today's favorites - "Muppets In Resident Evil 5 - So Very Wrong, Yet So Very Right."
Back in college I took a web design course, hoping I could somehow show-case excerpts of my life (continuously updated) in the pretty colors of my choice. That was seven years ago. I'm not sure if "blogging" existed seven years ago, but it is essentially what I was learning to do, except it was called something else which I can't recall now.
At any rate, I've just spent pretty much all day at work figuring out how to blog. How did the word "blog" come about anyway? I searched online for a definition, and the word was defined as a "weblog." I guess the origin is "we-blog?" Anyway, after a couple of hours, I finally found a semi-desirable template to get me started. Ironically, I often teach Ashley to not to spend too much time on designing the looks of her research paper. "Leave that 'til the end" I always told her. Why can't we parents also live by what we teach our kids?! Alas, the day will come soon when Ashley will say "YOU DO IT TOO SO WHY CAN'T I?" in my face.
But that would be a discussion for another day.
Back in college I took a web design course, hoping I could somehow show-case excerpts of my life (continuously updated) in the pretty colors of my choice. That was seven years ago. I'm not sure if "blogging" existed seven years ago, but it is essentially what I was learning to do, except it was called something else which I can't recall now.
At any rate, I've just spent pretty much all day at work figuring out how to blog. How did the word "blog" come about anyway? I searched online for a definition, and the word was defined as a "weblog." I guess the origin is "we-blog?" Anyway, after a couple of hours, I finally found a semi-desirable template to get me started. Ironically, I often teach Ashley to not to spend too much time on designing the looks of her research paper. "Leave that 'til the end" I always told her. Why can't we parents also live by what we teach our kids?! Alas, the day will come soon when Ashley will say "YOU DO IT TOO SO WHY CAN'T I?" in my face.
But that would be a discussion for another day.
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