Blogging is fun and easy (and scary)

This is my first official blog. Does this make me a "blogger"? I guess definitionally 'Yes'. Funny to think of myself as a "blogger".

For those of you who don't blog, if you're interested in putting some thoughts down in a pseudo-public forum and you feel bad constantly spamming emails to your friends, blogging seems to be the thing to do. I was surprised how easy (and FREE!) it was to set up a blog. I only tried www.blogger.com but found it to be so simple that I didn't need to look elsewhere.

The funny thing about blogs is that you don't really know who your audience will be. Obviously when you are typing an email, you thoughtfully consider who you're sending it to. I guess more and more, however, when forwarding emails is just a button click away, you do have to be somewhat conscious of unintended readers getting a copy of your email, but surely sending an email is not as unnerving as the feeling of posting a blog. It feels almost as if you're being "published" (in fact the button you click to post your blog is called "Publish Post"). While this may not be an ominous feeling to some (I'll use this as a segue into my next post), it is for me...