How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Blog

Well let me say right at the outset that rumours that I said I would never blog are exaggerated, but it is certainly true that I expressed serious reservations. Several people kept suggesting that I start a blog -most notably two of my new colleagues in this endeavour, Mark and Sean- and I kept declining. My reasons were simple, and chief among them were time, attitude, and content, together with a rather narrow view of bloggers. With regards time, it seemed to me that the really successful bloggers are clever, witty people who spend an awful lot of time keeping up with other sources of news and opinion by reading several other blogs, at least ten newspapers a day, all the popular magazines in their field, and generally are plugged into all of the issues of the day in their field as well. This leads me on to attitude. These ...