After learning on Monday that Greensboro has more bloggers per-capita than any other city in the United States, I realized that any further attempt to exclude myself from the craze would be detrimental to my already pathetic social life. Armed with little more than my recently acquired knowledge on how to create my own blog (thanks to Sean Coon) I decided to jump feet first into this unfamiliar world in an attempt to make my voice heard…
To be completely honest I am torn between two distinctly different feelings towards blogging. Obviously I am excited about the possibility of sharing my thoughts to an endlessly potential audience as exemplified though the creation of this page, but I am also a bit unnerved about publicly journaling. I realized that only materials in which I allow to be presented will ever be posted in a blog but something still feels a bit awkward about publishing my thoughts.
Hopefully I will soon begin to post blogs that truly reflect my feelings towards society but for now it is off to complete pre-calc homework.
-Cory Rich
6 comments:
rock on! you'll be addicted in no time flat. when you get a second, go to greensboro101.com and submit your blog to the local mix.
keep in touch, man.
Welcome to the blogosphere dude! I can totally appreciate your hesitation, but know this - having a blog is like sitting down at a coffee shop with a couple of your best friends, talking about topics that you're all passionate about.
By the way - excellent writing.
Cory, welcome and feel free to express your ideas. Would love to hear your thoughts about society. So many of us "adults" think we know it all and it would be refreshing to hear our youth speak their mind on how we run things.
Cory, welcome. And I appreciate your point about "journaling" versus "blogging."
The way I see it, I journal in the morning to get all the thoughts out in one uninterrupted, unedited, unprocessed session of words, emotions, and frustrations spilling onto paper.
It's a process that usually makes way for the ideas that have inspired my blog post. Through journaling, I find my truth. Through blogging, I've found, in one blogger's words (hat tip, Sean), my voice.
Looking forward to learning more about what the difference between the two is to you.
Cory,
Sorry, but there's just no escaping your ole English teacher...
First your 1984 poem, then your research on Dr. Emoto and now your own blog...
So let me just go ahead and get it out of my system:
I AM SO PROUD OF YOU-
Maybe as a class assignment we can take one of your posts and apply DIDLS to it...what do you think?
Alright, alright, just kidding...
(But would you at least consider thinking about it?)
Ms. Newlin
Well said.
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