Today effectively marks 2 years of blogging. It’s soo strange but I remember the day I decided to start blogging like it was yesterday. I’d actually heard of blogging before that, in early 2003, however for the life of me I couldn’t see the appeal for myself or for the general public. I was as sceptic about it as most people I talk to about my site in general.
The blogging element of my web experience started off in Blogger as a way for me to update my site. That’s all it was, since I thought that was the easiest and simplest way. For a complete novice to these things it truly was/is the simplest way. As I got into it the blogging aspect more I realised that in actual fact writing my thoughts down in an organised and archived way was actually a great form of therapy. Upload all your thoughts helps clear them and make them less weighty in your head. It wasn’t until later on in the site’s life (a year later) that it evolved once again into something more, my link to people of the same mindset.
This is an incredibly powerful aspect that is lost on many people who don’t blog but have that opportunity. If you blog you’re talking about something. Someone is bound to find you via searching through the multitude of blog search engines and effectively continue the conversation where you thought it was over. It’s been an incredible 2 years that I can’t ask more of.
A while back, over at Joen’s site, I can’t remember what the topic of conversation was, but Joen effectively said:
‘You’ll realise that it’s not important what you say, it’s what your readers say’
At the time this comment to me aback and I thought:
Hang on a minute that’s wrong, surely you’re doing this blog for yourself. The fact that people would like to listen in on your thoughts is nice and if they contribute that’s nice as well.
The fact of the matter is however that it does depend on your reason for blogging at that particular time in your life. It used to be about the therapy, then it was about the internet projects, now it’s about the friendships and the people that passby here and say hello in their own way.
So effectively what I’m honestly trying to say is THANK YOU for reading and contributing to Broken Kode, it would have been an empty husk of what it is without everyone.
Here’s to many more years of blogging, sharing and creating friendships.