Welcome (again)

I've always been a fan of the internet. From its inception, creating a website, hosting a few pictures, and some paragraphs about ones self, seemed to be more then enough to establish a presence on the web. Now, with server space so abundant and bandwidth costs going down, the internet is now fueling a group of amateur writers who want to share their own experiences to the world. Unfortunately this creates an unnecessary buzzing sound, somehow, in the form of text where people who are just like you and me but may have their own good ideas and observations of the world, that before would have gone unnoticed.

Like most everything on the internet, things flare up then die out as soon as they are created. But if anything is becoming more constant, it is the fact that the technology just keeps on getting better. Back when Hotmail wasn’t owned by Microsoft, the big thing to do was create crappy websites on Geocities or Angelfire. While some of them are good, and filled a certain niche, it wasn’t enough. For someone to post up some pictures they found, let alone a video, they had to conjure up some server space and then some bandwidth to be able to share to the world. Now there are startup companies who will definitely make it their mission to accommodate this digital form of self-expression.

Then Myspace happened. While this medium, in inception, isn’t terribly impressive…the ease of use and interconnectivity is where its power lies. Imagine all of those crappy Geocities pages had a friend list, incorporate a friends list, blogging like Livejournal and a virtual blank wall people can come up and scribble graffiti on…then you have a behemoth.

While I like Myspace and what it has to offer, I’ve always maintained my own space on the web of stuff I’ve found interesting, and come to realize it was a blog all along, sometimes even dated. With Flickr to replace my photo album and links to previous blog posts as websites, hopefully this site will become something more then my old website could ever hope to be, and its ease of use to contribute to it keeping fresh. §