Personal reflections on blogging and audience

Considering that I’ve built web pages since 1995, and worked in technical support through college I thought of myself as basically on top of things on the internet, but I was a relative late comer to blogs and blogging. It was the spring of 2004 when I fell into the blogosphere. I felt like I had awakened to a whole new web, literally new, refreshing itself daily. I made my first attempt at blog authorship a few months later, writing anonymously to gripe about my job - I was looking for support for my emotions and a space to vent. That blog was mostly abandoned by the summer, when I took a better job which was also more demanding on my time. I did start a new blogger blog in the summer, where I used my real name. This was more academically focused, in anticipation of my starting grad school in the fall. Since this winter I had been toying with setting up a “real” blog - which I would put on my server, as I considered the blogger option not up to the level of technical credibility I wanted to portray. The new blogs purpose is the same, academically focused filter and k-log. I write for other scholars and students primarily. What finally forced the issue of my implementing the “real” blog was that I ought to have something proper up now that I’m doing a study about blogs.