To blog or not to blog?

Blogs have always been double-edged for me. There are times, both professionally and personally, when I have wanted to blog about something important -- or unimportant. I think, "Why, yes. The world would like to know my thoughts on this topic." That thought is usually quickly pushed out of the room by the much more active, and much more numerous, negative, and vocal thoughts saying, "You're delusional," "No one is interested. Put the Blogger down," and "Um, no, dude. Really. No."

Another side of me worries about having enough content to make the blog worthwhile for me and for any readers. I don't want to become a part of this statistic: "According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled." (New York Times, June 5, 2009 - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/fashion/07blogs.html).

I think I will let the crude digital imagery of MS Paint help me illustrate my point:

However, a dedicated topic, rather than an everything/nothing blog, hopefully will prevent me from resorting to posting about my cats. (Too late!)

A first blog test

So, yeah. Here's a first post.

Whoa. Check out all its bloggy magnificence.

And, here's my cat.