Memory
A few years ago, every few months, someone or the other would pipe up with an angsty post on the topic of blogging. The question always was: Why do we blog? My standard thought at that time was that I blog because I feel like it. Now I think I have a better answer.
I blog to remember.
I blog to remember.
posted by Tabula Rasa | 8/02/2010 01:41:00 PM
7 Comments:
You mean it's like a sort of open, online diary?
(I never kept a diary and I rarely re-read my old posts -- so I suppose our motivations are different.)
I originally started when a Telugu site started rejecting my comments. Slowly the purpose seems to be changing. Now it is partly like a commonplace book:
http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2010/04/the-glass-box-and-the-commonplace-book.html#more
But too many interesting things and I am beginning to loose track of the previous posts.
And people are tweeting to forget?
//seriously, hasn't everyone abandoned their blogs for twitter?
Trying to remember from a public log, recorded soon after something happens - seems like an inherently sketchy enterprise. You lose the ability to introspect. But later on, you read your blog, and it seems factual.
I am skeptical of using blogs to archive personal memories.
BM: For me, self-censorship (while blogging) is the bigger problem...which is why a public blog cannot replace a private diary for me.
I blog(ged) to forget.
Now that I have forgotten I no longer feel the need to blog.
True story!
But thanks to you, I have to blog about this now.
Sheesh!
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