First Year Birthday November 30, 2007
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Opinion.trackback
My blog celebrated its first birthday today. Over the last year on average I’ve posted about three times a week. Posts covered communication/collaboration tools, laptops for children, the role of statistics and data in education, appropriate use of information, classroom uses for blogs, my own opinions, and even a few jokes! I haven’t gotten a lot of feedback, although there are 50+ comments. Akismet thinks another 350+ were spam. There are fewer than a dozen external links to my blog, not counting spam blogs, and Technorati reports a page rank of 962,510. Is bigger better?
So why do I blog? Mostly for myself. I need a space where I can participate in a creative process. I need a place where I can work through my own thinking by committing words to paper. I also need a location for my own thoughts that can exist somewhere beyond the confines of my limited brain. I blog because it feeds me. I blog because I need to externalize my internal dialog. I hope that those of you who are reading this are getting something out of it too, something personal and meaningful. I hope it feeds you too.
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Happy Birthday to Matthew’s blog!
Defintely food for thought, although I prefer my blogs deep fried with a side of guacamole and salsa.
Thanks for sharing and for stimulating our brain juices.
To another year of blogging by Matthew!
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