Lately I have found myself reading more and more blogs, many are religion topics, often by atheists. In addition I peruse various mathematical blogs, some political blogs, and a few others. I find that I am attracted to the medium, and particularly the way to get feedback from numerous people on a topic you write about. I have found myself fairly active on one such blog. It has been fun to have a give and take argument with people. Doing it entirely online, through writing alone, is interesting and intriguing in a different way than having a face to face conversation.
Perhaps blogging is a throwback to the days when great minds (of which I am not suggesting for a moment I belong to) would have written correspondance on a various topics. However, with the current technology, this correspondance can now be carried on with many voices participating as well as occurring at a much faster pace. What would have taken months can now happen in days.
Of course the plus side to taking months is that more thought could potentially be put into each response. Yet, I think the many voices can more than make up for this.
I am not entirely certain where I intend to go with this blog. My interests are teaching, teaching math, math, religion – particularly Buddhism, although I am curious about paganism, atheism (for the atheists out there, I apologize for lumping you in with the religions!), and Catholicism – puzzles, the state of our country… oh, I guess I can say I have a lot of interests. For now, this blog will probably remain somewhat eclectic. We’ll see…
