Welcome to my blog – I’ve no idea how many people will ever actually reach this page, but thought it was about time I tried this whole blogging thing that everyone seems to be talking about…
Actually, this isn’t quite my first attempt at blogging I guess – when I travelled round the world (2000) and again when living in Singapore (2003), I kept an online ‘travel diary’ – and was amazing by how many people did infact take the time to read and comment on my posts – often people I’d never even met.
I suppose that leads me nicely to my first thought (and question) – what is the difference between a ‘blog’ and a ‘diary’ – isn’t a blog just a slightly more voyeuristic way of keeping a diary? From Anne Frank through to Bridget Jones(!), I suspect that many of the most famous diaries ever written were infact done so with the intention that others should read them. So I suppose you could say that these were actually some of the very first blogs ever written – the only difference being that the technology available at the time required something of a ‘time delay’ between them being written and being read!