Interested in saying something, but is it interesting to say?

I’ve always written well, at least by those encountering my writing have told to me; teachers, professors, colleagues, managers, friends, and family.  Especially my mom, but hey she’s my mom.  While I’ve done tons of writing, it’s never been anything I enjoyed much, nor looked to make money at, etc.  It was a form of communication, and another way of organizing information for others to process.

For the longest time, I’ve been a technology guy.  But when blogs came about, I wasn’t too gung-ho about them.  Cool for others, but I write enough in emails already.  Plus, I don’t have anything Earth-shattering to say, really.

Then along came things like twitter.com, and I met some great people.  Reminds me of my early days using Q-Link (became AOL), and their chat rooms.  Twitter is like a world-wide chat room, but with so many people, you turn on who you listen to, instead of hearing everyone and turn off who you don’t want to hear.  The updates submitted can be random, profound or silly, boring or amazing.  But people are sharing their comments, feelings, thoughts, emotions, activities; their lives.  The term sometimes used is “micro-blogging”.  Cool, I have time for micro-blogging.  Except sometimes it can consume a lot of time, unintentionally mostly, but when you get to know people, their updates take on more relevance to you personally, and so you begin to wonder what so-and-so is up to, etc.

Since I’m micro-blogging, and it’s taking up some time, I began to wonder if I should revisit starting a blog, if I had time to write entries, and if anything I say would be interesting to others.

As I thought more about it, talked to others about it, reading other’s blogs, I realized it’s all the same… what you write, you write because you want to say it; it’s relevance may be of less importance to others, but people that know you, or are getting to know you, may be interested in reading your posts; your posts may sometimes be less interesting at times, but overall, it’s something you felt the need to say; it’s a part of you.

So I’m blogging… and while at times it’s mostly for myself, getting my ideas out of my head and into words, I’m hoping others find it interesting to read once in a while.