What is a difference between a blog and a diary?
While the latter is something personal and maybe even kept as a secret, the formal is though personal but is tantamount to the scrutiny of the public view.
I asked myself this question recently when I was looking through some of my previous entries on psykedelic-slingsh0t. I wondered whether I felt relieved after I blogged about certain issues or did I consider the volatility of such a personal space that I held back on some issues which resulted in a status quo. I pondered over whether I wanted psykedelic-slingsh0t to be a read that lures people and tips the readership scales or one that is relatively unknown and kept within a close circle of friends. I deliberated over whether was I ever compelled to blog or did I ever find it a chore to blog.
A blog is your personal platform to say things that you really want to express in your nuances and maybe profanity. It is somewhat like narcissism in its finest. Yet, however much of a 'Me' that is emphasied in our own blogs, we need to understand that the basis of blogging is for one to express ones own thoughts and ideas seemingly with freedom. As the adage goes, everything has a price to it, so does this freedom of speech. The consequences of the abuse of this freedom, whether legitimately or not, are in some ways the complete antithesis of having a blog in the very first place. It seems that this freedom that we have ain't exactly without conditions.
There is a new programme by Channel News Asia called BlogTV and they have a website www.blogtv.com.sg which is worth clicking on to view on some of the comments made by people who wanted to leave a first impression.
