writing my life publicly is one blogging obsession, as is evidenced by my livejournal: http://cksample3.livejournal.com
i've been writing steadily about much of the little private parts of my life since i moved to new york city back in january 2000. this serves several purposes for myself. it is first and foremost therapeutic. i realize that there is some separation between the web me that i write with the possibilities of others to read and the real life me that people would and do encounter in the real world. i also realize that both of those versions of me are different than the private me, the me that i think i am most (or some) of the time. but this textual blah blah blahging me helps me to work out that me that i think i am most of the time.
i think the reason that this textual vomitous of details is made public (or at least possibly public, depending upon who actually bothers to read what i write) is dual: 1. flat-out narcissism on my part. 2. some strange protestant need to confess my sins to my fellow men.
blogging is also useful to me. old friends find me on the web and reach out to say hi from time to time. i make new friends through it. i learn from it and i become more bold from it. although, i must admit, i hope my parents never bother to read my livejournal.
i also have two other blogs. one is http://blindsensei.blogspot.com, which is just a sort of experiment in putting forward bits of wisdom i need to learn in the very-fake voice of a blind sensei, like the one who used to be in an old tv show some of you may know. this blog is rarely updated.
then there is my more public blog: http://radio.weblogs.com/0102917/ which i use to blah blah blah a bit more professionally (in other words, i proofread it) about tech and politics and various things that i see on the web. more than anything else, this is my own public portal to the web. my public memory of what i've read on the web and what i've found interesting and what I thought about it. this is also the one where i keep checking the referrer logs to see if more people are reading me, or if someone who read something I wrote from the RSS feed posted it to their site. This is where the narcissism comes out full force. I think I've lost my steam.......that's another good thing about blogging. It's not professional writing. You are allowed to lose your steam.
Posted by cks3 at February 13, 2003 08:00 PM | TrackBack