Blogging

My name is David, and I’m technologically illiterate.

That’s my confession. I like computers, they don’t like me. They freeze and crash and make angry noises when I accidentally spill liquid on them. But I kept coming back for more, like the abused spouse that I am, until one day I could take no more!

“I’m done!” I cried, “It’s over between us! Time to disconnect from the modern world and go live in the woods!”

And now I’m in Networked Media. My sorry saga might be a slight exaggeration, but it’s true that I’m rubbish with using and understanding technology. So, to find myself in a class where a key objective is the maintenance and cultivation of a blog is confronting. True, it’s not brain science or rocket surgery, but I still struggle.

I like it though.

I never really understood why people would want to blog – to review their favourites books and games, to rant about the politic climate, to provide amusing anecdotes of their day-to-day lives. However, having read some of my peers’ work, and delving into the wider world of blogs, it’s clear that there is a considerable amount of talent in the world, talent that might not have had the opportunity to express itself as vividly before as it can now. It’s great to find someone you agree with, or someone whose writing entertains or informs you, and consuming their thoughts and feelings about the world at large. So, in some sense, I think I’m starting to understand it now.