Words, of all sorts, have never seemed so now. P2.

After reading Andrew Sullivan’s essay about blogging, “Why I Blog,” it is easy to see his positive view about blogging and the ‘blogosphere’, as he calls it.
Andrew finds blogging as a means of instant personal satisfaction when writing something in that very moment. After writing for years under an editor whom he worried about pleasing, he was introduced to blogging, and instantly felt more comfortable being able to express his thoughts, ideas, and just write without having to worry about going through any process of editing and approval. Many people would find this as a better way of writing because there is really no need to worry about revision, unless, however, you would find it personally more harmful to have your fellow bloggers scrutinizing your ideas.
Andrew found that blogging was easy to get hooked to because he enjoyed the simple experience of being able to broadcast his own words into an “exhilarating literary liberation,” since blogging was more about improvisation and thoughts that raced through your head while you were typing.
This is what I believe is Sullivan’s real purpose for blogging; the overall rush and excitement that comes with being able to express yourself at the moment, however you like, without fear of judgment; the “intoxicatingly free” form of writing that is so easily published for the world to view, and desires comments and input of all kinds: both good and bad. Andrew tells of how bloggers are subject to being criticized or at least challenged when blogging about their opinions. This to him is wonderful. Having someone interested in what he has to say enough to even challenge it shows that what he feels, what he experiences, shows his personality, and what he simply has to say matters and is important.

I hope I’m not the only one who finds it ironic that we are blogging about blogging. The experience is indeed new to me, despite being an avid user of the internet, so I was a little skeptical when approaching this assignment. I was honestly not really aware of what a blog was, the purpose of one, or how one went about creating one.
My adventure started out just about the same as any other online setup: enter your email, set up a password, and so on. That part was simple, except for that one security part where you have to read those distorted letter and numbers, but I managed to decipher the code. Then came the tricky part; making the blog personal. I have always had problems with choosing usernames, URL’s, or anything of the sort because I think about the meaning behind everything, and think I have to have the ‘perfect’ name or title. So it sure didn’t help when that part of the setup described the step as being a title that would appear on the dashboard, which made my decision that much harder because I didn’t know what a dashboard was, therefore, I didn’t know how personal to make it. I did like how the blogger had the option of what background to use for the blog. I’m a creative and artsy person, so this was a nice little touch. I also think that the idea of a blog is similar to that of a note on facebook or a bulletin on myspace.
For me, writing a blog could be compared to writing because it is basically a post about your opinion, and I find the most enjoyable papers for me to write are the ones where I can openly and freely discuss my opinions.