I have been virtual lurker these past few days, reading blogs from their beginning to the present. This came about after a discussion with a new blogger in my district. She was feeling inadequate, thinking she had nothing new to say, she felt she was trying to catch up, she was not a writer after all. I am not a writer and that certainly hasn’t stopped me.

We all enter the blogoshere at different points along our learning path. We have different experiences, needs and insights. Our jobs and interests lead us in various directions. Take for example The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman, it was first published in 2005. Some bloggers (Wesley Fryer, Doug Johnson, and The Savvy Technologist) wrote about it then, I did not get to it till 2006. It wasn’t in my sights then, I was working in a different direction.

I reminded her we blog for different reasons, some blogs such as Communicating with Technology are places for providing resources for a specific purpose. Others are more lists of good tech finds and ideas such as Kathy Schrock’s Kaffeeklatsch and Julia Colby’s Technology in the Education Arena. Some bloggers cover a wide range of topics and have quite prolific authors such as Around the Corner and Cool Cat Teacher.

Reading some blogs from their beginning helped me to see how a few blogs and writers have developed. Some started out very professional with great thoughts, others started out with “hello world”. It is a journey, it is about learning, it is about sharing what we discover along the way. So to you begining bloggers read, write, learn and have fun.