Blogging And Bookers

What's with Blogging Anyways- Everyone is doing it these days ....All my friends are blogging -writing fancy stuff-poems, stories, articles on their impressions and observations of life and so on. I had started this some 2 years back. This was all due to Peeyush -I got to know about blogging- it was a pretty interesting thing-I always had a secret desire to be a journalist and well.....(is there any harm in admitting it)...... a Writer as well. During my college days on many a summer days when our professor would be droning about the Demand -Supply Curve and its nuances I would be dreaming about the Booker's that I would get one day- I had already edited my acceptance speech- (the last excluded name of thanks was that of my brother's because he refused to give me a lift on his bike that morning). Many of my such dreams would be abruptly broken when the prof would suddenly decide that I am the best person to explain about the extensive usage of metaphors in shakespeare's dramas. Come to think of it- just because nobody paid any attention to what anyone said- I have got away with a lot of crap in college-talking about hyperboles when i should have been speaking about metaphors( my logic being- they sound similar so must have something to do with each other ).Anyway so the writer in mean started nagging me, troubling me, telling me that I must give it a shot.

So I got all excited and started blogging .Its been sometime since then- changed jobs and cities and made new friends. And wrote about all of these major and minor happenings in my life. And then I started Blog Watching along with writing and I realised that I am a miniscule part of a big big world-there r millions of people from all over the world who are actively blogging something every minute. They share thoughts, ideas, jokes, articles, pictures, fictions, advertisements through this medium. Some are diligent bloggers who have formed forums and groups - some blog jargons have also evolved like " blogwatch", Blogroll"," Tagging" etc.
Some Blog related controversies have also come up -the IIPM controversy comes fresh to my memory. Ask us Bloggers what is the The one takeaway, one benefit that we get by regularly logging in, putting on our thinking caps and keep typing in our thoughts and making them public- Well if you ask me- I am practising to get a Bookers:)
But I guess it serves as a medium to express onself , give vent to creativity, discuss on issues on which they have strong opinions or fetishes etc. Its a nice cost free medium.So carry on my friends- And keep reading my blogs and post your nice comments( mark the word nice) and of course you would get a mention in my Bookers acceptance speech:)