Audience of One

Get off to a good start

I thought, seeing as I’ve just re-released my weblog, I should probably write an entry pretty promptly. I mean, the welcome entry doesn’t really count, and the first ABC is a regular feature.

So I sat down, and tried to decide what to write.

I’ve recently subscribed to the BBC’s news feeds for Science, Nature and Technology. I started to read through some of the interesting ones, and thought about writing about them here.

It’s the first entry, though! I can’t just pick a random story, however relevant, and discuss that here for the first entry…

How about finding an interesting blog article somewhere, then? My cousin Sparticus has written an interesting discussion about seeker sensitive churches and evangelistic events. I have enough to say in response to warrant an entry here. After all, that’s one of the great things about weblogs: discussions can take place across different websites, and bring information and arguments to a wider audience.

It is my first entry, though. However interesting this might be to write about in the future, I have to do something special for my first entry…

I could review a little-known book and give it a wider audience; I could even write a short story, or post one I’ve written in the past that no-one’s ever seen; I could post a fantastic photo I took the other day. I could do many things.

None, I felt, were appropriate for my first entry.

So instead I wrote this.

I could finish off this entry with a moral about how so often we ignore all the “pretty good” options, waiting for the “excellent” option, and end up being left with the “just about okay” or “poor” option because we’ve missed our chance – but it’s the first entry, so I won’t.

Matthew @ 10:07, February 20, 2005 to Diary | Comments (2)