Blogging – the future

I have just noted this item from one of my G alerts:

Move over: journalists will have to share their space

Roy Greenslade
May 1, 2008

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/journalists-to-share-their-space/2008/04/30/1209234954732.html

Extract

“Newspapers are dying in the United States and the death knell is also sounding for newsprint in Britain and across the rest of Europe. I still feel a little sad when I write that, because I’ve been a newspaperman for 44 years.
But the sadness is beginning to diminish because I’ve been a blogger for two years, spending five days a week writing on screen. So I have now come to terms with the decline of newspapers by realising that there is life after ink on paper. A life for journalism, that is.
As an unashamed digital revolutionary I can see that we are in the process of moving from one news platform to another. The stagecoach is giving way to the train. The great change does not spell the end of journalism itself.”

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/journalists-to-share-their-space/2008/04/30/1209234954732.html

Then I recollect that:

I am not anonymous so take careful steps in composing – grammatically correctly and concisely.
I am intellectually stimulated by new discoveries that seemed futuristic then (a few months ago) and are now common place ish for me; so I was writing in the swing of experimenting and getting an unexpectedly good result.

A meme, if it had been described, would have made sense to the Renaissance generation, the Hottentots, M Luther King and JFK, especially the latter two.

I have continued to make posts because I keep learning new things and relate them to old things. I have always written down in notebooks and diaries special sayings, books to read, mantras for the issues of the day, dreams.

I believe my posting is in this vein. I go back to my opening sentence – I am often amazed at how I thought and how I expressed the thoughts through the pen. I do not fit within Susan’s cohort. I write for myself, unconsciously recording me.

I have actually been thinking about starting another blog and shifting my haikus to that but I have one poet (a real) one who reads my blogs and I don’t want to alienate him. I should have given my netonym more thought. But I didn’t think I needed one for 23 things.