To Blog or not to blog?

I was asked to start keeping a blog by my editorial staff for quite a while.  I was given some good answers as to why I should, but already forgot what they were.  I don’t think they are the real reasons though.

You see, we have agreed that to attract traffic to our various websites, our web team insists that we need interesting blogs.  And how can we get even an interesting blog, someone has to write it.  They all point to me although I don’t think that I can create more entertaining contents than them.  It’s just that somebody has to do it, it might as well be you, boss.  Of course, they don’t quite come out and say it, but as the Thais say, I have taken showers before them.  I know it sounds stupid in English, but it means I have been around longer, so I know what they are after.  (I never figure out this expression as to why someone should get smarter by having taken more showers.)

Anyway, here I am with my first blog.  I have no clue on how to do it right, but know that I need to crank it out at least once a week, or else….  They say it’s like keeping a personal journal or a diary, which I never did.  As a child when it was fashionable to keep diary, I never figured out an incentive to do so.  First, it looks like work.  Second, if you keep secret there, then it will no longer be secret when someone else reads it.  If you keep it for you to read yourself, I think it’s rather funny.  I’d rather forget and do something else fun.

Back to our blog, my editor also said that I can comment on what I see, news I follow, people I meet or issues that I follow.  OK, that sounds interesting.  I can do that, as I LOVE to comment- many times uninvited.  Good, this way I can do it in private and in writing, because chances that people will come to read it is very slight.  (Don’t tell my editors this.)

So, from now on I will write about things, life and how I see the world.  If you are so lucky to run into or even follow this blog, you’ll get to see my point of view.  I can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from it, more than likely not, but I think I will.

My next blog will be on the hottest topic around here, the Flood.  Stay tuned.