Blogging: What's The Point?

So, it was with a little sadness that I read the final post of little.yellow.different where he says his is putting his blog on indefinite hiatus. I have always loved Ernie's blog as a frank, open and often wrily amusing take on life as a gay Chinese American web programmer with divorced repressed parents and a schizophrenic sister. Some people's lives really are like soap operas, but not eveyone can capture their experiences so lucidly, or so wittily, in the written form.

Anyway, whatever Ernie's motivations, he offers up his twitter and tumblr feeds as an alternative. This Pink Insider has not yet tried out twitter or tumblr, but cannot see the virtue in blogging when one has only 140 words to use, much less 140 characters. The immediacy which comes with twitter, and the brevity of the medium, means that long, well-thought out cogitations no life the universe and everything are really not likely to be found there.

I read that blogs are dying an early death, and the number of active private blogs has dwindled into insignificance. The major succesful ones have all been commercialized. At the end of the day perhaps it appears that it is money which keeps people writing. But I'd like to imagine that is is perhaps something less materialistic.

This blog started out as a wrapper for "my pink bits", just so they would be google searchable if people needed to find them. At the same time it served as a way of increasing the Pink Singers' web presence. But that was at the start. Over time this Pink Insider has grown rather attached to the sporadic updates on the In The Pink(ies) blog, and hopes that you, readers, find it interesting too.

So don't worry, this is one blog which is not likely to go all twitter any time soon!