Hello Progressive U, I'm Lance. I'll start posting some of my blogs I'm writing elsewhere here as well.
For my first post I think it's a good idea to say why I think a person should blog, and of course... why a person shouldn't. My real introduction will come in a future post.
A person should blog because they have something productive to say, some point that is being ignored, some issue that is being ignored.
A person should not blog to rehash stories from the news with one liner comments like "wow, I can't believe somebody would do that" or "what do you think?" I also don't think that a person should make a blog without thinking. If there are obvious errors in your logic, you're just wasting the time of whomever has the misfortune of stumbling on your page.
The ideal blog will look at an issue, break it down do its component parts and, with reason and logic, build the issue back up again. Only then can we really debate.
Basically, I'm saying that I don't think people should make dumb posts, at least not in a forum like progressive U. Of course, we have a significant force encouraging us to do quite the opposite - some point system that might get us some money. Oh well, I'm not here for the money, and I don't think any blogger should be here for it either. If you want to make a point about money being a negative force on the mainstream media, or on congress, or on corporations or whatever, you shouldn't have it be a reason for writing a blog.
Sorry, this is fairly hypocritical - my posting isn't very well written or argued - I'm having to write it while "watching" a class watch a movie.
SYNOPSIS: BLOGGERS - write stuff worth reading! That's the only reason to blog.
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