Why Blog…why?

Why do people blog? Should I jump into this blogosphere or not?

The first question has a very simple and a pretty straightforward answer – every soul has his own reason for blogging and every time a person starts a blog he may be either promoting himself or his business (e.g his company, brands and new product offering, etc.) or trying to establish a forum where he could express himself and engage discussion or trying to get in touch with fellow bloggers. Of course there may be other reasons too.

But the important question is whether should I be one of them or not??? And every time I had asked this question the answer had always been a big NO and the reason was simply that I had no reason to start a blog. Infact I had made few attempts in the past but all in vain. The attempts include chosing a blogging service (Blogger or WordPress), signing up for an account at WordPress back in April 2008 and logging in to my account (more than once) without writing a single word or even deleting the auto-generated post/comment.

But now that I am writing a post, few reasons have come my way. The reasons that I managed to get hold off include

• Crack wordpress. I am working on a project or two that involves blogging and RSS and to understand the internals I am trying to crack wordpress and so I felt why not use my existing account for this experimentation and cracking
• Over a period of time I have generally felt that I need to improve my writing skills and blogging would definitely help me in this regard
• If at all I would, which I assume I might, write about any current event or any hot issue, my analytical skills would also be put to test
• It would also offer me a chance, it at all I avail it, to write about the events happening around me
• And it’s always exciting to have a blog just kidding