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There are millions of blogs out there. Some very good with established communities. Some are part of larger organizations - newspapers, magazines etc. Many of them are maintained by people whose main or secondary profession is writing. And then there are blogs maintained by people who use it like facebook - posting links, telling others what they are doing and posting frikking pet photos.

And then there are blogs like this one. With one or two entries, created in an initial rush of enthusiasm that dissipates within a couple of days. If I am lucky, this may make it beyond that - and maybe even become "precious" and "self-consciously clever" to quote a guy who knows about these things

The thing is - the excuse of self expression covers a multitude of sins. It kind of pre-supposes that your self has something to express - and that that something is of interest to others, more than any of the many other things one emits.

I took a look at some of the most popular Indian blogs.  Atleast the first result of a Google search on the term "Best Blogs". Naturally there are blogs on a number of themes - CEO blogs, probably ghostwritten, tech blogs on programming and gadgetry, hobby blogs - photography, travel, music and dance and blogs by authors.

One thing about them. Their keepers are consistent. A minimum of three to four entries a week seems to override other factors like content and style. Thats not to say some of them aren't very good. They are.  Some of them have been very good - but have degenerated to a bunch of tweets.

So whats a guy with limited writing skills, an uninteresting life, all the activity of a couch potato watching Cartoon Network and a soul destroying job for which he has complete contempt to do?

Pollute the net further with more navel lint and toe jam.