I’ve been watching the increasing popularity of blogs with some interest. Yet I can’t figure out the point of them. Do people really think everyone in the world is interested in their thoughts? Blogs often contain collections of random posts that are related only by way of the blog author who posts them. Is that really the sort of thing to which others (besides perhaps family and friends) would subscribe? Also blog postings clutter search results with hits that may or may not be accurate or useful. Is that really a service to the Internet community?
I can see the value in a tightly focused blog that is written by a major player in whatever field the blog is covering. Don Syme’s blog on F# is a good example of that. So perhaps instead of saying all blogs are pointless what I really mean is: this blog is pointless.
I thought about trying to keep this blog tightly focused on one of my areas of interest, but I decided for now to not restrict myself. After I gain some experience with blogging I will probably have a better idea of what I want to do and what the point of it might be. Until then I will just ramble about various technical topics as they come up for me. If nobody reads this, that is fine. Meanwhile I’ll have fun playing with WordPress.
Technically Rambling 