Hmmm… You asked “What is blogging?” Mainly it is a just a different way to put stuff on the web that interests me. I used to try to keep up a web site – http://www.gpaulson.doesntexist.com but it is hard to maintain and is pretty static. A blog (short for web log) is almost like a public journal. This, my first post Beginnings – or Why I think I must blog… , gives a bit of my thinking when I started.

Mainly I like having a place I can put things that have caught my interest. By writing it out I 1) get to share it with others and 2) have to think it through a little bit more than I might normally. An “official definition” of blogging can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog