While confined to my bed, I discovered this piece on blogging and the ensuing discussion. If I hadn’t been as light-headed as I was I might have been able to follow the comments a bit better but, as I have been accused of making people think to the point of head pain, this discussion rendered me a bit blurry eyed and headachey.

Still it is worthy of a link and a few thoughts. The idea that perhaps we have some responsibility to our readers to think before we write and remember that there are real people sitting on the other side of the screen.

I have gotten myself into trouble more than once in mistaking a personal discussion for a general one, or – and this happened a lot in my early days on the widow board – gave someone one of the sharper pieces of my mind. The teacher in me can’t help but share and sometimes it does come off as “instructing”.

But we have ventured this way before on the subject of blogging and it comes back to the personal. We are not paid professionals. I don’t run ads though I have thought about it. No one sends me goodies in an attempt to “purchase” a blog link (and I am not adverse to gifts people – gift away). This is just my blog and my gentle readers – who have outed themselves – are fellow bloggers and friends who write and share too.

Blogging is about community. Something the world as we know it is sorely lacking. I don’t think it is a waste of time at all.