Expressive Knees

Expressive Knees
For After The Fleas

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

The Start of Something...

Getting on the blog ladder isn't quite as straight forward as one is led to believe.


Blogging is serious business


Blogging is dead



Blogging issues



Blogging is a waste of time



Blogging is for losers



Blogging is not journalism



Blogging is fun



Blogging is not writing



Blogging is good



Blogging is journalism.



After crawling out from under my cool-proof/knowledge-proof/sound-proof stone I realised that not only do I have no idea how to set up a remotely interesting looking blog, I don't really understand what it is.

In it's perpetually 'helpful' way Google chrome finished off my 'blogging is' search with the above ten conflicting responses. Albeit limited, my feelers can't help but detect a smelly aura. An online creative debate that has probably swum around the virtual ether for a fair while now; causing healthy discussions leading to divine prophecies on the future of blogging and its significance in the preservation and continuation of journalism. On the other hand I may have just crawled out of the wrong side of my little stone.

Nonetheless here I am. Starting something new. Hoping it turns into something. Tentatively arrogant and hope, along with Gavin DeGraw, that it's 'something good'. What that something is I am still unsure. But here goes...

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