OMG, another blog! 

Just how many blogs do you figure there are, anyway?

As of December 2011, according to this site, it looks like there are over 2 billion people using the internet.  900 million of them are on Facebook (FB stats here)– which you could think of as kind of a mini-blog, I guess.

(I tried to figure out what percentage that was out of the 2 billion—being somewhat easily distracted by statistics–but the calculator on my Blackberry won’t let me enter 2 billion – and please don’t tell me I can use Excel or figure out what percentage 900 is of 2000.  That’s like higher math, and I’m not in the mood just now.*  This is supposed to be about words, not numbers.)

Anyway, 2 billion on the internet, and, apparently, about a billion of us have a blog.

That’s 50%.  (Even I can do that kind of math.)

And it’s now a billion and one, folks!  Here I am!

Eeek.

(That is a sound I make frequently.  One of my friends has taken to calling me Eeek-laine.)

Embarking on the new adventure of blogging.

So why am I here?  Couple of reasons, I think.—maybe more than a couple.

1. Try something new
2. Break through a long-standing case of Writer’s Block
3. Force myself to improve my writing by practicing in public like Seth Godin suggests
4. Sound off—who can resist a bully pulpit?
5. Start a conversation—because I guess it would be only fair to listen to what you have to say, too.  (You can post comments, you know.)
6. Give the exhibitionist in me a little bit of equal time with the inhibitionist (is that even a word?).
7. Share some information, some thoughts, some tips, some struggles—because there’s a good chance that some of you are having the same struggles
8. Put my website on somebody’s radar screen–since I seriously don’t want to be Emily Dickinson and die with a drawer full of unpublished/unread writing.  (Although I played Emily Dickinson once – and that’s a subject for another post.  One of the things I’ve learned in my research about blogging is it helps to have a lot of things to talk about and to spread them out.  So we’ll get to that later.)

The answer is any and all of the above—and probably some other reasons that aren’t clear yet.

Why should you care?

Let’s save that for tomorrow, shall we?

* Oh, by the way.  That calculation?  900 million/2 billion.  It’s 45%.