This blog is new, so I don't expect anyone to read it. To be honest I never expect anyone to read it, ever. It is more an attempt to set done my own thoughts on whatever happens to pop in my head, on whatever subject, so that I no longer annoy my immediate family and friends with rants on the abomination that is the Victorian government's plan to introduce a desalinisation plant to produce water rather than recycle it, the poor state of public transport in Melbourne, etc.
I was originally inspired to open the blog because of something I read in Web.Studies by David Guantlett and Ross Horsley (see www.theory.org.uk for some interesting theory on popular culture etc). Somewhere in his opening chapter, Guantlett mentions that any student of the Web should participate in the creation of global Web culture by having a homepage, blog, or something. I figured that seeing I am studying Chinese web culture, and don't have much particular aptitude for these sorts of things, that opening a blog would be a good way to experience how web culture is constructed first hand, albeit in English. However, seeing as I do everything in English about one million times quicker and more eloquently than I do them in Chinese and this is just a small side project, English will do.
To be honest, I should really be writing other things at this point in time, but I hope to continue to update regularly with bits and pieces and links that I find interesting. Over the next few months I see this blog growing, but then I expect that the millions of other bloggers who first open blogs but never update them simply because they have nothing worthwhile to say probably foresee and expect the exact same thing.
I guess we'll have to see how it goes as I crawl along the blogging learning curve.
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