Is a Blog without purpose really a Blog?

The key to weblogging is the key to any kind of writing. The writer must have some kind of general purpose in mind:

" It is not important that you know exactly what you are doing when you begin writing your weblog, but you must have at least a loosely defined purpose for your site, and you must vaguely know for whom you are writing---..."

-Rebecca Blood

Take our class for example. Most of us are novice blog keepers, so the beginning purposes for most blogs on the Daybook is two fold:

A. Experiment with blogging, and B. Maintain a weblog as a class requirement with the initial intended audience of classmates and instructor.

Some of our blogs are still at this stage. Others, however are already developing a voice, or a purpose beyond the initial reasons for set up. Often these purposes are either stated in the description field , or in early posts.

Such as:

• Reinman's, which bills itself as a blog based on bees and philosophy
• George's, Which has a political focus
• or, this blog itself, in which I will write mostly about personal thoughts, feelimgs, and activities.

Let us watch and see how each of our purposes evolves or changes over the course of the semester. It will be interesting.