Recently I have realized 2 things:
1. I have a penchant for trying out new sites/applications in this brave new world we call the internet. I tinker with new social networking sites, music sites, art sites, even dating sites just to see how they work.
2. Facebook is ephemeral. I can post a link or a video there and, within the hour, a lot of actively posting friends will have bumped my post into the netherzone that is "earlier posts," and it will never be seen again. If I want to have my links seen, I need a board with a bit of permanence to it. I need my own website, or a blog. (Furthermore, I want to be able to say more than 240 characters about something once in a while)
Combining the first fact with the second has led me here, to the now-ancient internet service called "blogger." I intent to use this blog to show off all the stuff I think is cool, and to give lengthy explanations about why I think it is cool. It is more for myself than it is for any audience. Whenever I choose to "share" a link, I have a side-interest in mining that link for ideas and using it as a source in one of my future projects (I have a number of books in the works, as well as short films). If I can't SEE the links I post, because it's bumped away by ten thousand of my own inane status updates and activity messages, how will I get work done?
So yeah...
That's why I have a blog now.
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