The answers to that question could fill a hundred pages of Google search results.

The opportunity to share one’s words with the rest of the world is such a dazzling prospect that, after only a few years of its creation, the word “blog” has become a household term. I’m blogging about this, and you’re blogging about that, and the world is blogging about the world.

I haven’t posted anything for a while because, in truth, I didn’t feel that I had anything substantial to contribute. Blogging has become a means of transmitting thoughts, opinions, critiques, news, and even personal updates (although twitter/facebook has taken the lead on that). But really, there are critics to give critiques, CNN to give us the news, columns and newspapers for people’s opinion, and real life interaction to update people on what is going on in your life.

Blogging, simply, is a new perspective. Have you ever sat down and looked at a complete stranger and thought, “That person has a life of their own. They have their thought, friends, family, hobbies that are completely unrelated to mine.” Personally, I find it mind blowing to think about how obsessed we have become with our own life that we actually find it fascinating to think that other people have a life of their own.

And so enters the world of weblogs; a chance to see the world from a completely new angle, and a glimpse into the thoughts and lives of other people through meaningful discussions. When reading these words, and any other blogs, you are, reader, looking at the world through the eyes of a stranger, if only for a few minutes.

And so, no matter the ridiculous nature of the blog posts, the constant criticism of the blog or the limited number of readers for a certain blog, blogs will continue to grow for now, because we humans love to see how other people are living on this planet.

And so blogging is truly summarized in the slogan of the original MadReds Blog… to “See life OUR way.”

- B.A.