Personal reflections on blogging and audience

Considering that I’ve built web pages since 1995, and worked in technical support through college I thought of myself as basically on top of things on the
internet, but I was a relative late comer to blogs and blogging. It was
the spring of 2004 when I fell into the blogosphere. I felt like I had
awakened to a whole new web, literally new, refreshing itself daily. I
made my first attempt at blog authorship a few months later, writing
anonymously to gripe about my job – I was looking for support for my
emotions and a space to vent. That blog was mostly abandoned by the
summer, when I took a better job which was also more demanding on my
time. I did start a new blogger blog in the summer, where I used my
real name. This was more academically focused, in anticipation of my
starting grad school in the fall. Since this winter I had been toying
with setting up a “real” blog – which I would put on my server, as I
considered the blogger option not up to the level of technical
credibility I wanted to portray. The new blogs purpose is the same,
academically focused filter and k-log. I write for other scholars and
students primarily. What finally forced the issue of my implementing
the “real” blog was that I ought to have something proper up now that
I’m doing a study about blogs.