Jessie X

Not too long ago, I had a slew of blogs. Blogs for this and blogs for that. I still have more than your average American, and by a long shot, but I’ve changed my tact with blogging of late. Yes, I still use blogging for content management, as I never mastered (and don’t plan on it now) the art of website design and coding. But more importantly, I started blogging LESS for my audience and more for me.

Oh, I can hear them now.

Blasphemer.

Heathen.

Stone her.

Hang her.

How dare she ….!

Well, it’s true. I blog for me. I blog because it helps me think. It helps me store information. It helps me figure out what’s important and what’s not, to me and just me. It helps me put my current thinking around content, categorize and tag it and put it in a place where I can most easily find the info: in my own blog.

And, because I learn from others and am interested in knowledge that moves from person-to-person, I put this information in a public blog, visible to anyone with an internet connection.

So, had you asked me — say six months ago — what the purpose of my blog is? I’d have said some high-falutin (and totally appropriate) answer about content, community, conversation and such. Ask me today? I’d say it’s for my own benefit. And blessings to all who benefit from it — and contribute to it — as well.