Internet Time Blog

This blog is now in its eighth year. I post entries here about whatever pops into my head, be it professional or personal. Many people "know me" through reading my blog.

I learn from my blog. My blogging is akin to walking around with a camera in my pocket. With the camera, I'm continually scanning the scene for interesting shots. This keeps me alert and appreciative. When I don't have the camera, I don't see as much.

My blogging is spontaneous. I just hop into whatever I've been thinking, usually bringing two or three ideas together and adding a unifying image.

Knowing that I'm going to write something is like having the camera with me. It keeps me curious. When I see something new, I immediately question it. Is this true? Is this a blog item?

Learning from blogging happens afterward, too, when you dig back through old posts, looking for something; I end up reflecting on what I find and sometimes marveling at my innocence only a few years before.

I enjoy answering comments but don't get enough of them to amount to much. This is gradually shifting. I routinely get 1.3 comments/post.

Blogging is like Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences: some people are born to it; others are not. So we shouldn't foist it off on others because some of us get so much out of it. Lurkers are welcome; they are the only type of readers the authors of books have.