This is pretty cool

No one has ever accused me of being among the technological avant-garde, so it's no real surprise that this whole blogging thing is something I am just now experiencing. I've been browsing blogs, figuring that I should know and participate in this new community I've joined, and I'm overwhelmed after only an hour. Many, of course, are tailored to specific interests that aren't mine (soccer, scrapbooks, computer games, fashion, etc.), some are excellent and interesting, rambling explorations of this and that (look at "good sites" below), many are in other languages and thus unintelligible to me, but what I like most of all, is that millions of people the world over are writing. All the time. By choice. Granted, some of the blogs I've seen are damn near incomprehensible, from bad grammar, poor spelling, too many abbreviations and those used strangely (is "lol" a noun? can you have "lols"?), but they are writing. And that's just wonderful.
Have this many people ever, at any time in history, been producing written material? No. And then commenting on what others have written, it's this vast, enormous discourse, completely unprecedented. Mind-boggling.
I know, I must sound naive and unoriginal to those of you who have known this and been a part of it for years, but I hope not to become blase about it. This is the great unknown, it's exciting, a new force that is changing social interactions, in unforeseeable ways. And doing it through writing, through language; I love it. What a wonderful time to be alive, to witness and participate in these events. I'm going to go click that "Next Blog" button again and see what the future looks like.