This whole blog thing

Writing this blog is pretty fun, even when it seems like no one is reading.
I've routinely asked myself "why do i do this?", or "what do i want out of it?", or even "what will I write?"

What is my purpose for this blog? is it like some, a way to provide interesting and relevant news on a particular subject? or political commentary (of which I am woefully ignorant) or is it a way to garner a few extra dollars to support my education as friend of mine is doing, or could it be something else entirely?
truth be told I wouldn't mind any of those things being the focus of my blog (particularly the money thing, which would be nice) but I can't seem to lock down one particular purpose for my blog.

And I realized that, I don't need a focus, because I don't have one. And maybe it's better that way. I'm free to write whatever I want, which is a pretty nice feeling, when contrasted against years of schooling being forces to pump out tons of papers primarily of the useless and meaningless variety. While I may not have a focus i do have many interests and can highlight them throughout my blog, enabling me to bring what knowledge and experiences I have to an audience (using the term audience loosely of course)

I suppose of all the possible benefits of having a blog (which I never considered before I started) is the educational value it has for me, I've never really been "connected" to the vast majority of news/social-networking/blog/etc sites out there, so now when I scrounge about online looking for things interesting to talk about I find out a lot more about things I was once only vaguely aware of. Not to mention the fact that when typing up my more technically oriented posts (like the ones relating to routers [I,II,III])I'm learning how to do the things that I'm writing about as I write them, by searching through the sites for all these things I find out a lot more about them than if I were to just read it off of some other blog or website.

You may be wondering what brought up this train of introspection, I'd attribute it more strongly to this post I read in this blog (that I came across while searching randomly for interesting things of course) it's a really nice article and definitely rings true with regards to my own thoughts regarding blogging.
I'm definitely glad I could share my thoughts on this matter. Enjoy