Just what is the purpose of blogging?  I was just reading some pretty creative blogs randomly on MOVABLETYPE.org, I suppose similar to Wordpress.org although they add ‘professional publishing platform’ only to offer ‘download it for free’ alongside.  I guess they’re been around a while, they’re on version 4.21.  The templates themselves aren’t as impressive as Wordpress’ in my humble opinion but pretty nice for their purpose I suppose, which is……..still not exactly sure myself.  I just started blogging to add a blog to my professional site, although after 6 months I’ve yet to add it in fear that it’s actually not very professional in some respects.

I only recently, as in the last year, discovered what blogging was.  Of course I had heard of it but had no real idea of what a blog entailed nor the attraction.  In casual conversation I almost shocked someone not only with my extremely limited knowledge of blogs, but the fact that I didn’t even have a blog, and at my age!   I made a conscious effort to take mental notes and begin to decipher the differences between a blog and the common website.  Less than one year later, I now have two blogs, this being the second, and still consider myself a rank ameteur in the world of blogging.

Anyhow these blogs, about four I randomly perused, were the creative type, politically skewed some, basically rantings which doesn’t necessarily appeal to me despite this confused rant.  What is the purpose of a blog, to continue….I started, again, because I hear Google takes business site’s w/blogs and grants them some added credibility in positioning.  I suppose that might be true and intend on linking it to my moneymaking site someday.  I’m hesitant to do that because I was recently and randomly linked to an offshore gambling site and my blog’s positioning was thrown back even further than when I initially published it.  I’m only assuming it’s due to that link though as Google never let me know for sure why the demotion.   This much I know of blogs, is that this one in particular will have nothing to do with my business site.

I like blogging because I like writing, gives me something to do and allows me a fairly ….whats the word for;  ‘disguised  platform to say whatever I want’ and think.  One blog was evidently written by an ex-hooker, so I suppose it’s anonymous (that’s the word!) despite the fact that if someone was to pay a stud fee for my dog’s special services,  the anonymity would be gone.   Not that I have anything to say, don’t get me wrong and am not very politically inclined either and find the voting processes’ significance a joke personally.   Back to the reasons for me blogging.  So I was gonna attempt to make a blog-site that could, for instance; gain retribution for wrongs in a legal manner.  Say if I was to be screwed by an SEO company, I could do my best to warn people about, say…….. Mainstreethost for example,  and in that way do a profound  civic duty.  That companies such as this exist and their players not incarcerated for thievery and general mischieviousness is a conundrum that I think deserves blogging.

Asides from that, and again not being swept in by the theatrics of politics, I guess blogging will help me learn more about computers and software and free or nearly so, Internet advertising.  I did read one blog that’s intent was public display of odd poetry that I presume the author felt a need to share, curious how many people finished a single poem, or maybe many do similar to the exacerbation of a canker sore with your tongue.   Another reason I see many people blog is to become self appointed reviewers of consumables and let out their inner  test driver-user/critic/connoisseur.  That looks to be a common one.   I can see the attraction there and the dream of sponsorship(s) and free merchandise!   Another I’ve seen that’s pretty common is to take one single subject and blog the hell out of it.  I can see the attraction in that too and actually is what my other blog basically does so I want to try something a lot broader.

At this point  there is no single thread and will blog anything that comes to mind that interests me, including but not limited to drugs; both legal and illegal, health and fitness, SEO marketing, sports, guns and weapons in general, tobacco in all forms particularly harm reduction, NA, home chemistry, beer and wine making, AA, business;  both legal and illegal, art, entertainment,  and last but not least; man’s best friend the dog.  Anything and everything and it’s illegal counterpart or basically anything that interests me.

Any good ideas and opinions of the top 10 reasons to blog, even if they rhyme, will be appreciated.