Why do we blog?

I'm tired - constant bombardment of up to the minute news, updated websites, conversations, phone calls, blogs, podcasts, 2 million channels of entertainment (not one of them entertaining), a sea of books. My watch, heart rate monitor, number of calories burnt. Storylines, taglines, punchlines, mottos, logos, management lingo. My precious email; It's all exhausted me. We notice who wears what and when, and who says what to whom. An endless stream -nay - a raging torrent of information hits us every day, constantly and consistently. Everything is the biggest thing ever, the most important thing that we will hear about all day, all week, all year. It's a neverending hurricane, and each one of us is swaying with the gale force winds of information. Information overload - there's just too much information for one human being to absorb in an ever exanding world.

So why do we blog? It gives us a vent, a release. A channel to express the threads of information we've managed to extract over the course of the day. A minute to structure our thoughts and put things in perspective. To draw parallels and go off on tangents. To group together related and non related issues, drawing a thread out of the info-ether and associating the information to your life, and, better than making a mental note of it, blogging it. You've aggregated, consolidated, and radiated the yourself in the information.

Enjoy it, you're now one with the ether.

'The volume of information that crossed our brains in one week at the end of the 20th century is more than a person received in a lifetime at the beginning of it. '