So I've been pondering whether blogging is pointless or worthwhile. If everyone in the world had a blog, how many people would have the time to read each one? How many would be worth reading? At least when I opened the microphone to speak on the radio there was fairly convincing evidence to suggest several hundred thousand people were listening.
A number of people have commented on the fact that five thousand people have downloaded the Flintshire Motors ad I voiced a few years ago, but we know that when it was played on the radio around 300,000 people would have heard it. All but the most moronic among them would have realised it was a parody, too.
But then, is writing only legitimised by reading, or is there an element of art for art's sake here? Certainly writing can be therapeutic, but what's the point of joining the massed ranks of bloggers ranting on about the price of sprouts?
Suddenly I am reminded of a conversation with Paula Cordeiro, the lone Portuguese radio academic, whose blog in Portuguese and English http://netfm.blogspot.com/ is read by hundreds of people keen to get the latest from her. I'm sure Radioid would never grow so big, but maybe it could have some impact. Perhaps.
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If the diary of Samuel Pepys had perished in the Great Fire of London, or if he hadn't bothered to write it, would we be the poorer? Probably yes. Did he expect it to be such an important and widely read record of his era? Probably not. So let's go for it...!
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