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January 03, 2005
My mom is watching
Hello all, my mom is standing behind me right now, watching how I blog. I think I heard a statistic today that said something like, "While 'blog' was the most searched word on the internet, 61% of internet users do not know what a blog is." This is amazing, but pretty easy to believe. Those who understand what a blog is know that it is an extremely powerful medium. Those who don't know about them really have no way of 'jumping on the bandwagon.' It's really not easy to get into this game, unless you know someone who has a blog, or just happen to bump into something you enjoy. Here's a question for all you blog readers...how did you first happen upon the blogging world?
My first blog was Belle de Jour, a now defunct blog (which was updated for the first time in a long time the other day). It is the story of a London Callgirl (who just happens to be a brilliant writer). I loved coming back every day to hear her adventures from the day before. Sometimes they were a bit lewd, but in general they were just entertaining. She has a book due out soon based on the blog. Really interesting stuff.
Soon after this, a few of my friends started websites and blogs which they updated in order to tell about their lives. First there was Joel's page. Joel is a rabbinical school student, and when he spent his first year of school in Jerusalem he built a little page to update all his friends about his life. I think he has since taken the page down, but it was still pretty interesting when it existed. Next Josh and Doron started up blogs when they each moved to Israel. It's funny actually, all of my friends who were the first to jump on the blog trend did so when they moved to Israel. Strange coincidence.
I guess after I started reading these blogs, I was off to find others that interested me. Now there's a whole long list of blogs that I check out. Perhaps I'll put up a little blog roll (a list of all the blogs I read). Try to find some blogs that you enjoy. This is a medium that is extremely powerful. It gives individuals the power to publish their words and thoughts, a feat which often goes ignored.
Posted at January 3, 2005 09:15 PM