I blog, therefore I ... eh.
Just because you have a blog, does that make you a blogger?
I'm debating this internally because the work I could do at my day-job isn't as appealing as this jumble of activity in my brain.
But the question is along the lines of that thing about the tree falling in the forest, no one around to hear it, does it make a sound, etc. It's like, if I sit here and type, but no one bothers to read it, does it really count as a blog or I as a blogger?
Answers to both questions:
Yes, the tree makes a sound. A sound that takes place with no ears to witness it does exist; it's just a matter of the tree falling and the sound it made won't exist in a person's perspective or memory. But certainly the reverbrations the sound releases into the atmosphere eventually reach us in imperceptible ways. So really, we hear it somehow, even though not conscious of it.
As to the blogging, sure I can type away, and my blog exists, but if no one is around to read it, why should I be recognized as a blogger? I could just be typing into a MS document and saving it on my hard drive seeing as I'll probably be the only one to read the things I've posted. But, would the things I write if only I were to read them be of the same subject, content and style if I didn't write them with the notion that someone else might indeed read them?
What I really should start thinking about are topics to ponder here that are far more interesting than these 'if-then' questions?
Next time: Which came first -- chicken, egg or Colonel Sanders' DNA?
I'm debating this internally because the work I could do at my day-job isn't as appealing as this jumble of activity in my brain.
But the question is along the lines of that thing about the tree falling in the forest, no one around to hear it, does it make a sound, etc. It's like, if I sit here and type, but no one bothers to read it, does it really count as a blog or I as a blogger?
Answers to both questions:
Yes, the tree makes a sound. A sound that takes place with no ears to witness it does exist; it's just a matter of the tree falling and the sound it made won't exist in a person's perspective or memory. But certainly the reverbrations the sound releases into the atmosphere eventually reach us in imperceptible ways. So really, we hear it somehow, even though not conscious of it.
As to the blogging, sure I can type away, and my blog exists, but if no one is around to read it, why should I be recognized as a blogger? I could just be typing into a MS document and saving it on my hard drive seeing as I'll probably be the only one to read the things I've posted. But, would the things I write if only I were to read them be of the same subject, content and style if I didn't write them with the notion that someone else might indeed read them?
What I really should start thinking about are topics to ponder here that are far more interesting than these 'if-then' questions?
Next time: Which came first -- chicken, egg or Colonel Sanders' DNA?
posted by imp @ 9:04 AM
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