what the blog..?

Just blog browsing for a little while here, and made a comment to my line manager Pete that the land of blog is oh so quiet at the moment...less posts than usual, less comments than usual, at least to my eyes anyway. What is blogging all about anyway? It's wierd when you think about it! I was loathe to start a blog in the first place, can't really remember why exactly...probably just bacause everyone was talking about them and I didnt neccessarily want to just follow the crowd. I didnt dig my heals in for long however...and now here is Amy's not so new blog!
So why blogs then ey? Are they a post-modern replacement for something now outdated...letters (not that I will ever believe that letters are outdated), phone calls, bla bla bla...? Are they a way of networking, socialising, a global way of getting to know people? Journal's without a lock and key? CV's, soap boxes, prayers, proctrastinations? Sometimes I wonder whether they exist just so that we can prove to other people and to ourselves that we are, we think, feel...probably not though. I do think that they can definately consume more time than they deserve, and that too often they are in danger of reducing life to something so much less than it is...things should be lived and breathed and experienced, do blogs encourage this or discourage this? Am I giving this too much serious consideration? Possibly. Nevertheless, what is my blog for? Does it have a prupose and does it need one?
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