Why do I blog ?

Coming back after a break of one week, it only is proper to have a post about blogs. It’s now two years for me to have a blog and to write posts in it, but this past week was the first period of introspection. Why do people blog or more specifically why do I blog? I will not try to generalize in my quest for the answer. All sort of generalizations are debatable, and this time my endeavour is to have an answer on my own.

I don’t have much experience with main stream journalism but there is contrast between a piece coming up in newspaper and a blog. When someone writes for main stream media it is for a targeted audience, while most of the time a blog is for ‘oneself’. Since a blog is also in a public domain so it is available to readers as well. But the difference should always be factored. Now days, with increasing popularity of blogs, things are changing. Most of the big time writers, columnist and even newsperson have their own blog. But the difference remains. A blog is a place for informal discussions as compared to formal tone of main stream media.

A blog is about one’s affiliation, association, subscription, belief, disbelief, disenchantment and disappointment with some idea(s). The view presented in a blog can’t always be compared with Op-Ed pages of a newspaper. There can be several sources or websites which have better substances, but a blog is author’s personal substantiation. A piece coming in a blog might be summarization from five possible sources but that might be for the author to comprehend some idea(s). Most of the time the readers might have expert view of the subject matter discussed.

All being said, I still believe that a blog is mainly to serve a personal purpose and not to prove a point. Extrapolating this also means that a blog being used by a third party for some motive can’t be blamed on the author of the blog. The author could be held responsible for the views expressed in his/her blog but it does not confer recourse to any third party usage.

With these thoughts let me hope that I will continue blogging as before.