Over the past week, I took a little tour of the internet, to see what people are discussing. As you have seen, I?m an opinionated man, and I relish the opportunity for some friendly sparring in the arena of ideas.
So I am wandering around, taking in the scenery, and I ran into a BLOG. Fascinating concept, the blog. It seems to be a journal, with the added feature of allowing people to leave comments to discuss the ideas the blogger has put forth. Utterly fascinating.
One blog appears to lead to another, as the community seems to be rather tightly knit. I read a bit hear and there, occasionally leaving a comment as a particular train of thought ran over my intellectual foot. I ran across a particular blog, though, that carried some rather inflammatory comments, without offering the opportunity to comment.
?What a cowardly way of presenting your thoughts and ideas,? I thought to myself, immediately regretting having thought it so loud.
? Well, E., don?t you do the same thing??
I hate when I do that.
To be honest, I have become a lot more comfortable discussing my writing and ideas with other people, and have even, in a very limited number of cases, revealed myself to some people whom I trusted to be discreet. Therefore, I have migrated the Journal to a weblog. All the entries that you have read here, and all future entries, will be found on the weblog, as well as here in the Journal. There will be a lot of tweaking to the page in the next few months, but I don?t expect it to be completely down any time soon. Comment areas are open for all entries. I ask very little. Be courteous, even in disagreement. If you want to trade insults with someone, exchange email addresses and do so in an arena that will reduce collateral damage. Commercial advertisements will be deleted. Try to stay on topic. If I see something wandering off, I will, in most cases, I will make another entry that is more appropriate to what is actually being discussed. Over time, I will add links to other weblogs of interest.
If you have questions, feel free to email me, and I will get back to you.