Blogs a different genre from Personal Websites ?

Rex Hammock's take...

I think a personal website is a static presence on the Internet that can be comprised of many components, a weblog being one of those components. (Or, you can make your blog the only component if you want.)

A blog is merely an online journal that can be updated as often as someone wants to update it. It's called a web "log" because the geeks who first started doing them were trekies. (Okay. That's merely a theory, but it's one that amuses me.)

A blog can be private so that just a few people see what you post -- say, a family blog or a hobby blog, or a sunday school class blog

It can be private so that a few people working on a project can see it

It can be public and be done for fun

It can be public and serve as a means for someone to market their expertise

It can be public and allow someone to have the opportunity to be heard free from editorial control or approval by da man.

It can be public and be owned by da man.

When I started my blog, one of the reasons was to replace all of the e-mail I was sending to multiple addresses; you know, the "have you seen this article" type of e-mail.

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Personally i feel blogs can be a gr8 networking tool. Never-seen-the-person-but-know-him-so-well kind of 'blogships' can blossom. Last but not least ...... it helps to kill time ( if u r a s/w guy , then u wud know wht i mean ;) ) !!

After visiting Seoul Tower , we were heading back to the Sub-way station when we accidently chanced upon this breathtaking view. With a parkbench serving as a tripod and setting a self timer in the camera to prevent shake caused by the click press , shot this without even properly focussing. Didn't expect this to come out so well !  

Singara Chennai !!

When i came to Chennai four years ago, my hate for this place was intense and complete. Singara Chennai was the perfect misnomer in the world i argued. Having lived my first 21 years in Coimbatore , i felt Chennai was dirty, sultry , populated , polluted and what not ! I cudn't fathom how ppl cud even bathe in the murky metro water much less drink it.Wondered how ppl can be so rude. The intense heat , heavy traffic , inadequate water supply hmmm...my hate-list was lengthy.

Lately though i am begining to enjoy this place like never before. Yeah ....still there are probelms with chennai...but somehow learnt to adapt to them and learnt to enjoy myself. Window-shopping in Spencers, lazing away in the beach ,evening movie at Satyam , dinner at some exotic restaurant, jogging @ loyola, landmark in Nungambakkam,Baristas, Fruit shops have become much more endearing to me than just feel-gud factors. Am really trying to understand what caused this paradigm shift...maybe is this what they call Stockholm syndrome ! I dont know and i dont wanna know !

Colorful Korea.......Fall colors, Snowfall, Sunset.....a color collage ! True to its tourism caption....Korea is indeed the best kept secret of Asia. 

Loneliness......Solitude......

Everyone needs some time alone ..... keeping just their thoughts for company. I too luv to spend sometime alone daily. Sitting in the balcony , watching the Sun set in the horizon , watching stars punctuating the twilight sky with white dots , ruminating , reflecting ........ wow ! the luvely moments of oneness with creation, times when every cell in your body resonates with a sense of pleasure, when every fibre of your being says life is good.

But when solitude is thrusted upon you , Loneliness rears its ugly head. Made to work on a One man project, which is now into its sixth month, and with many of my friends quitting the company .....solitude is not one thing i relish these days. Afterall, Solitude is a gud place to visit but a bad place to stay ! The Wilson volley ball in Castaway flick makes much more sense than it used to . These days i desperately try to take refuge under a book ,a movie or music.

And this too shall pass .........

Blogs.....

Am trying to remember when i heard the term 'blogs' first .......it must have been couple of years back .... even tried to read some of the Rediffblogs then....my opnion that time was 'Blogs suck big time' . Still i was hooked to Rediff Diary .... a series of anecdote-like articles. I liked them because i cud relate myself to them so easily. Blogs, as a term, haunted me again during the US invasion of Iraq. A couple of blogs maintained by Iraqi civilians presented the stark ground realities. Thatz whn i realised the potential of Blogs ...... that this cud be the new face of Journalism. Tsunami Disaster and the recent fiasco of Mark Jen with Google re-affirmed my faith that Blogging is the next big thing in Internet.

Today i cant imagine my day without reading Blogs. RSS feeds have made blogs such a potent force to reckon with. I subscribe to nearly 50 feeds and Bloglines has become a One-stop-site for me to gobble up whatever Blogosphere has to offer me.

Saw this quote today somewhere ....
"Blogging is like writing an email, cc:World." - Doc Searls
Aint this quote cute !!!!

Hello World

Yup.....yet another Software engineer typing his first few words for Blogosphere. This is more of a 'Notes to Myself' kinda blog ..... so can't guarantee the reader to derive any value-add out of this. And No Quality assurance for any of the postings. Thanks for Trespassing anyway !