John Baker’s Blog

1. Why do you blog?
Outreach. I am an introvert by nature but I will always feel the need to reach out and inform, converse (as long as it’s not by phone), communicate.
I started this particular blog several years ago to keep track of everything I’d read. I like that it’s searchable - so I can [...]

1. Why do you blog?
Meaning only exists for the living. Writing is wasted information if no one reads it - it’s ‘dead’ information. It comes alive when living beings receive it. Blogging, of course, facilitates information transfer, thereby lending meaning, positive or negative, paramount or negligible, to whatever you write.
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1. Why do you blog?
I started out blogging because I felt like I had something to say and blogging was an easy way to put it “out there.” I guess I blog now because it has been integrated into my life. Book blogging has become a hobby. I have contacts and [...]

1. Why do you blog?
Here is a copy of a piece that I wrote in May 2006 on the whys and wherefores of blogging:
One post on the Arts Journal blog which caught my eye deals with the question of why people bother to create blogs anyway. And it asks a question which, for many bloggers, [...]