why do you blog?

[hamster]

I'm just addicted to words.

[Arimiel]

mix unlimited internet acces with boredom.... shake it and garnish it with a bout of insanity... and you have my reason fo a blog... which is why they usually do not reach the third entry...

[camillitech]

Some of my reasons are similar to those of Annpan, Camillitech and Wombat, but there are two more and one's very important.

My blog (and this forum) are my two main means of meeting other like-minded people and exchanging ideas, hints, tips and rants. While I live in a rural area, we're a long way removed philosophically and socially from either the villagers (very suburban) or the large-scale farmers.

There are a few like-minded people in the wider area, but we've only found them via the blog (and this forum again) as none live especially close to us.

I'd have little contact with people who accept what we do, much less actively support it, without either the blog or Ish. It's why I always try to make time to post in both places, unless very pushed for time.


My other key reason for maintaining the blog is to give back what's been given to me over the years. Many people have shared their knowledge with me, the least I can do is share mine.






Oh, and yes, I do like to indulge in a rant now and again...

could not have put it better myself Stoney

[Wombat]

Why should I be satisfied in imposing my self indulgent whittering on just my family, when I can do it to the whole damn world!

Nev

I like this answer the best!

Thankee, bows low......

Nev

[Super.Niki]

I only just got into blogs, I've written a few things on MySpace but they've been more like notes than blogs. However Fee kept pestering me to blog out my experiences of my nasty house mates so in the end I did. Actually found it a great way to let off steam! Lots of my friends read it too...A few in particular are subscribed and every time I update it I get texts/emails/IMs/phone calls telling me they're coming over to sort em out! hehe! Luckily it's all over now though!

If anyone's interested:
http://studenthalls-ohwhatfun.blogspot.com/

read from bottom up....! XD

have been considering a recipe blog though... because I do come up with quite random but most of the time delicious recipes!!

[the.fee.fairy]

Nah, admit it, you want to be like me and my soup blog!

I used to have a livejournal, but i got a bit fed up with only updating it when i had something to rant about. Now, there are some things on there that still move me, but most of the time, i read my old posts and tell myself off for acting like a child.

I have my soup blog because i like making good, fresh soup for work, and people were always asking me what's in the soup today, did you make it, have you got a recipe, all that kind of stuff. I also had a couple of people ask me why, when i can buy it in a can, do i bother making soup.

So, i started blogging teo share the recipes.

[justskint]

I don't get out much. Need to contact like minded people.

[snapdragon]

I don't - would have been fun while my boys were growing up though - but they didnt have t'interweb then

I do need to write stuff down before it leaks out with all the other worms i keep forgetting, but I'm not and never have been a keyboard wizard which don't help

[Eigon]

I live in a tourist town, Hay-on-Wye, and I saw lots of articles or entries in blogs about visiting the town, but there was nothing out there about what it's like to actually live here - which is a bit different from what the tourists tend to see!
So I started Life in Hay, which is the back stage view of Hay-on-Wye - the coffee mornings, organising a Fairtrade event, our Timbuktu twinning project, general gossip....

When I started the blog, I suspected that my creative writing would suffer (I'm attempting to write children's fantasy to a standard good enough to get published - no joy yet). I was right, but I am still writing fiction, and I am enjoying writing the blog, so I'll carry on as I am.

[baldowrie]

I spent many a holiday at the camp site in Christchurch and Hay was some where we went to regulary.....saw Les Dawson filming in Hay many years ago.

ah memories!

[circlecross]

It is interesting to note that people see it as a way of "talking" to like minded people, or getting advice, especially long-term, or large volume bloggers (like Stonehead).
I must say that I find typing an easier way to commune - easy to pick up and put down, unlike the phone - and the volume in our house makes it almost impossible to have a phone conversation, and I think people who visit us who don't have children are always amazed by the inability to sustain a train of thought!

[the.fee.fairy]

I also find texting easier than phoning. I have a really treally bad habit of losing concentration when i'm talking to someone on the phone - i tend to have a look around and get distracted by things.

[Ali B]

I have my soup blog because i like making good, fresh soup for work, and people were always asking me what's in the soup today, did you make it, have you got a recipe, all that kind of stuff. I also had a couple of people ask me why, when i can buy it in a can, do i bother making soup.

So, i started blogging teo share the recipes.

Great soup recipes... love the idea of yellow pepper & swede... Yum.

I love blogs myself - I have found some fantastic advice/information/inspiration on blogs. In fact Amanda Bagg's Autism blog saved my life when my son was diagnosed with ASD. And craft blogs are wonderful things packed with masses of inspirational ideas that I can (pinch) make use of. So I write one just so I can join in...