The Flirt Commits

A few months ago, I flirted with blogging. The flirt is now ready to commit.

My flirtations gave me a taste of what is involved in this strange new (to me) world. I learned very quickly that a blogger is a writer, and that any writing is a discipline. A blog that is posted once every now and then is of marginal value. I realized that to keep at this would require discipline.

So, after beginning, I pulled back quickly. For the past few months, I have been content to observe the on-line world and, hopefully, to learn some things.

I’ve learned that blogs can be very helpful, if not over-indulged. There are millions of blogs out there. It would be easy to lose oneself in reading much that does not need reading. But I have stumbled across a few blogs that offer insight and often contrary opinion which I find valuable.

The features most appreciated in the blogs I’ve latched on to are relevance, insight, brevity, personality, honesty, and frequency. Whether I can reproduce such qualities in my own has yet to be seen.

The flirt’s commitment at this point is a simple one: to add a post at least weekly between now and the end of May. At that point I will evaluate and make a decision about the future. Of course, some weeks there will be more.

As always, I will be interested in the comments of all who read these posts.

Both of you. ☺