Blog Responsibly

One of those cute little things about me is my total lack of controlling what comes out of my mouth. I speak before I think and always regret it. But I have to hand it to myself, I haven’t posted without thinking. About a dozen times over the past 3 or 4 weeks I’ve come up with ideas for posts. Really good things… juicy. I plan them all out in my head and try to come up with ways to say things about or to certain people. But the saving grace in writing is the editing. I throw up all my words on the page, then go back threw it and trim the fat, then go back threw it again and again and maybe once more. Then I start to doubt myself. Maybe the hypothetical situations and suedo names are not as cleaver as I first thought. I put it aside and wait a day or two. So far every post that I’ve come back to a day later has been bad. Bad as in, dame that would be a bad idea to have that on the Internet. I have dodged some bullets. Big fat buck shots.

I’ve also decided I need to be lose with the names of people and places in my writing. The number of hits on my stats page well excited the number of people I know the day it went above 4.

And here’s a quick random thought. People love visual entertainment. People use to read newspapers and books, and then the TV came along and they could just watch the news, and saw the movies based on the books, and it struck me the same thing is happening to the Internet. At first it was all about the blogs and websites which were all text based. And now with YouTube and video blogers and on-line webcasts of news, it seems like the reading aspect is being pushed out. Interesting how we created the written word and yet are uninterested in it. I’m not making moral judgments I’d rather watch then news then read it, and I watch tons of video blogs on YouTube and only read 5. Like I said it just struck me last night, as I was TRYING to sleep. You know how you start thinking about anything and everything when your laying in bed unable to sleep.