Why I Blog? For Fame! And Chicks! And Soda!

Randy answered a meme called “Why I blog”, and unfortunately he tagged me, so here goes:
Why do I blog? Well, I can’t answer that without saying why I started blogging. Almost three years ago, I felt like I needed a way to keep track of this great Google company, and I was just barely into LiveJournal communities at the time, so I figured I would start a Google community, convince others to contribute, and sit back and read the news as it came in. Well, the contributers never showed up, I wrote all the news, and moved, first to BlogSpot, then to my own address.
Along the way, I discovered RSS (far better than LiveJournal, obviously), Google Blogoscoped (which, had I discovered properly before I started, probably would have stopped me in the first place), got married to a wonderful woman, became disillusioned with the […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg