It's amazing how much blogging has matured in a few short years. This article from Bradlands shows a blogger struggling to find his raison d'etre at a time when people were still trying to figure out what they, personally, could do with the Web.
Brad discusses blogging as something that gives him a sense of community and a license to explore the net. It sounds like he's afraid that his personal publishing will be perceived as mere vanity, as if he were a sixteen-year-old girl posting about her cats. He knows he wants to blog, but from our position eight years in the future he shows remarkably little vision as far as what his blog, indeed what blogging, could become.
Now in 2007, Brad's blog is a tool for keeping in touch with the world, and turning others on to potentialy interesting things. It isn't radically different from the style of stuff he was posting in 1999, but it's much more communicative in nature.
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