Me and my cat doing Networking Media “homework”

I feel like blogging has a direct correlation to being nocturnal. The old anecdote states that when you want to sleep and turn your brain off, that’s when all the best and most wild ideas bounce around your head like creative dancing laser beams. Thus it can be true to say that some of the best blogging (well for me this is mostly true) is done while killing time until your brain switches off to send you to sleep. Like procrastinating for sleeping. Using up the last bursts of brain energy before you start restoring and recharging.

So, here at 12:10am on Monday morning is my beautiful cat (and best friend) Alfie and I, blogging, thinking and writing. Well I’m doing most of the writing, he’s just lying here being adorable and purring.

The Blogosphere

The concept of ‘blogging’ still makes me feel so confused and still in the 1990’s. I know what a blog is, I know how to blog, I know why people blog, but it’s still quite a funny concept to me.

This online dictionary says that a blog is a “web site containing the writer’s or group of writers’ own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other Web sites.” I also learned that the word “blog” comes from a shortening of the word “Web blog.” Cool.

Anyone, definitions aside, I’m really excited to delve further into the world of blogs. There’s something about blogs that I find so futuristic and  cool. I feel like I’m almost not cool enough to blog, like everyone who owns and runs a blog is in some super secretive technological ‘club’ that I’m not invited to. Basically, this sums up my anxiety about blogging.

Mean girls style!

Ugh!

But, just like trying to fit into any super cool group, you have to fake it til you make it! SoOoOo.. let the blogging begin!