QotD: What Blogging Means

What are the positive and negative associations that you and those around you have with blogging?  Have attitudes changed over time?

When I first heard about blogging, I was…dismissive I guess. I didn't see the appeal of an online diary as I thought it was back when I first heard about it. Then I got pulled more and more into the web 2.0 world through podcasts (specifically Inside The Net), heard about Vox and something clicked. I think it was the whole Question of the Day thing. I think it was the first time I realized that a blog didn't have to be just about what I had for breakfast or whatever. So I jumped on board, and wow…I'm still doing it 9 months later.

When I first started doing this though, I worried about telling other people I knew about it. I wasn't sure what they'd think to be honest. Yes, that's right…my negative association of a social medium is in a social context. Figure that one out! I dare you. Eventually though, they found out and they don't think I'm a weird psychopath or anything. Well…at least if they do they haven't mentioned it to me… Heck, I even got my sister onto Vox.

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