Blogging as a duty.

The other day a friend MSNed me to ask if I don’t blog anymore and then I realised that I hadn’t blogged in over a year. A lot has happened in that year. I have consolidated my e-location by abandoning my four  Yahoo accounts and opening up a new Gmail account, in addition to getting a wordpress account  and starting another blog (Jamaican Lexicography Project). The reason for the lack of updates started with my being upset with blogger because I wanted to change my e-mail address to the new Gmail one, and they just wouldn’t allow me to do that. So I walked away from the relationship. This week when I learnt that I could import my old blogs from blogger, I knew it was time for me to sign the divorce papers. I did that tonight, so this blog is kind of the formal speech.

In the days when there were no blogs – and I remember those days well – but only paper journals or what we could call plogs (paper logs), the entries were meant to be private, and reading someone else’s plog was seen as a capital offense. Now, in the e-age, all that has changed, we pour our hearts out on virtual paper and actually invite the whole world to come and read. Also whereas in the days of plogging it was left up to the plogger to decide when and how often (s)he plogs, in the age of blogs, it is almost a duty to keep your readers’ interest by blogging regularly.

So, just in case there is anyone still interested in my boring life, I promise to make a better effort to blog regularly. I did not say how regularly though.

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