Thoughts on blogs

I've decided I love blogs - writing them, that is. Clearly it's the medium I've been waiting for all my life, but as a consequence I keep having to remind myself of security and privacy issues. It's too easy to blog away as if one were just thinking aloud.

As for other people's...I've had a look at some of the library blogs suggested by 23 Things, and I can now see the point of them. For news, up-to-date information and things not suited to notices (which people don't read anyway) this is obviously very suitable. Do readers look at them? Perhaps they do. I didn't know they existed until now, but then I'm not very up with technology. I wonder whether putting things on a blog lessens the need to answer the same basic questions again and again. For my own part, I was busy the other afternoon processing some very interesting books by African writers, and suddenly thought that a blog would be just the thing for announcing the arrival of particularly interesting items.

However, I still think that the temptation to spend hours more on-line blogging or reading blogs just for interest, in other words because they're there, is worrying.