I hate Blogging. I think it’s despicable that you Get famous in the Flash world by blabbing into space. It’s hilarious how may Industry Leaders have a hard time giving you the time of day until they’ve read your blog. I’ve been seeing these guys at conferences, user groups, and on jobs for over a decade now but it seams as though I could go my entire career in the background just because I don’t rant on a page about how the Flex team is retarded for not fixing a bug I voted on (Sorry Doug).
Blogging, the gratuitous masturbatory guitar solo of the internet
But then again, how do you give back to this amazing community without sharing your late night discoveries and breakthroughs. How do you grow the community without offering up examples that help lead people to the place where they Get It. How do you help keep your brethren inspired without sharing the sparks that keep you up all night long coding. So many of us take so much that we do everyday for granted. As if once it becomes second nature to ourselves then it becomes obsolete and useless to anyone else. Then as soon as you find yourself stumped the first thing you do is google your way to someone’s, you guessed, it blog. Blogging, the gratuitous masturbatory guitar solo of the internet, the obsessive recording of seemingly useless information, the glimpse into the strange habits of nerds in their spare time, and the best way to give a bit of yourself back to the cloud that makes this livelihood possible. I hate / love / need to blog.
