It’s Just All Noise, Right?

“Blogs? Ha! What a bloody waste of time and webspace”

These are words that, in the past, I would proudly put my name to. I’ve never been convinced of the value of blogs. In fact, I’ve scoffed and spluttered an excessive amount when I hear that someone intends to embark on writing a blog -  the world could really do without more thought, opinion and comment. WordPress has i-dunno-how-many million blogs, blogger probably has a similar number; it’s just all noise! So the fact I am even typing this first post does make me feel a little bit strange. I’m a bit spooked.

I often have these turnaround moments. I think anyone who knows me well enough will be familiar with my firm stance on something, only to change my way of thinking. Indecisive? I’d rather call it, um.. progressive. So I spent a few minutes yesterday thinking about it, going through my bookmarks and checking out my RSS reader. I quckly came to the realisation that I’ve actually always avidly followed a number of blogs and RSS feeds, for example Google Blog, Springwise and I’ll admit that I do follow the Digital Spy celebrity news RSS feed with more interest than I’d like people to know. The thing about these examples is that they lack any sense of personality. So that must mean I am not a proper blog user. Phew.

I was wrong. Argh! I realised that  when I search for something, the answers would very often come from a blog. So I thought that I would start to make my contribution.

So now my stance has changed… “Blogs? Oh yes, they’re good aren’t they.. mmm yes”