Blogging comes in all forms. Lifestyle, fashion, academic, politics and even up to the weirdest topic your mind could ever imagine and think of, blog has it. It is like a one stop shop for thoughts. By simply typing in your request here comes the hundred list of bloggers and their sites sharing their own and different views on it. I remember this one site that I’ve visited last week; it’s about paganism which has 261 bloggers. Some might raise their eyebrows on this but I tell you, this is what we call the power of mind. What really amazed me in this kind of hobby was not just the number of ideas that you could search on the web but on the increasing number of blog sites that you could visit. It only means that as the number of blog sites increases, the number of bloggers who continue this kind of passion also increases. There is no exact history of blogging that could be traced but as far as the study is concern, research says that it blooms in the year 2005. During the said year a project was introduced by G. Raikundalia & M. Rees, two lecturers from Bond University on the Gold Coast, Australia. However, this project does not include the exact features of blog site that we have now. It is only a Web browser access to various meeting document information, such as minutes, tabled documents, reports and document indexes. From that year a lot of entries were written by different people. It was introduced here in the Philippines after a couple of years and in February 2003 a blog award was held in the Philippines to give recognition to talented bloggers. Obviously, the change in the blogging community is as visible as the change in our technology.
So from that simple evolution we could infer that such hobby was a dynamic tool of learning that grows as the technology advances. This idea supports my conclusion of why people get hook in this new way of sharing and expressing their thoughts. People who spend their time using this feature simple wanted to express things out of their comfort zone, free from any restrictions and don’t think of any rule of man that could govern. It is like their thoughts and their page only matters. A place where they can freely express what they feel regardless of what he’s talking about. It’s like finding you’re a best friend whom you can share your feelings without being embarrass nor being rejected. Then I realized, that the blog that I managed consumed me. My hopes and fears were written on it. And I freely expressed it without any hesitations. At the end of the day, what really matters is neither the number of readers who follows your post nor the readers who kept on questioning your prowess but the thought that every time you do blogging, you talk to your best friend and express your emotions.
-----this is my entry when I joined the ESSAYS.PH as a freelance writer.
