Why I blog

Why do I blog? Some reasons...

Oftentimes people will ask me questions (sometimes technical, sometimes not), the answers to which I think others would find insightful. Rather than answer one person at a time, why not answer everyone at once?

Sometimes I ask questions of the internet and the internet does not give me a satisfactory answer. In these cases why not patch that hole in the information machinery once I do find an answer and distill it?

Other times, I simply have to capture the hilarity of daily life.

Does blogging make the act of publishing online easier? Yes. But it also gives me an excuse to throw up a bunch of otherwise unrelated writings without worrying (much) about organization or about whether they "fit".

Inspiration:

• Philip Greenspun - Envisioning a Site That Won't Be Featured In suck.com
• Paul Graham - Writing, Briefly

© Josh Staiger, joshstaiger@gmail.com