First posting

Well, this is me and my first blog. I don't suppose many persons will read this first instalment, in fact I'd rather they didn't but you have to start somewhere.

Or do you? Why do this at all? Why inflict my second hand and/or half baked thoughts onto an undeserving blogosphere? Well, pretentious as it may sounds, for professional reasons. Oh yes. The more I research the web on behalf of my dear employers to find out how people in my sector are exploiting the web in innovative ways, the more I find that the answers come from people like me blogging. Previously, I would have had to attend a seminar or workshop to pick up the latest trends and ideas that are now constantly available on the web. The problem is the overload. I now get far too much from the web - I've got feeds from Twitter, delicious, yahoo groups, not to mention the normal email lists I subscribe to, and I need to understand more about how it all hangs together so that I can become a more efficient harvester of this information. Then I need to apply it one step further and work out how this world interacts with my normal professional world, which is donor databases. And they surely are related, but not as obviously as you might think. So I will be coming back to that later, which relieves me of the need to explain that now.

Now, if you look at the leading exponent of this game, you'll fine that they include about three hyperlinks in each sentence, be it to other areas in their own blog, or other sites on the Internet. This apparently ensure a much higher visibility for their Blogs, but I have to admit, it is seriously irritating. If you were to follow every link, it would take you hours to read each posting. Its like following all the 'QV' marks in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable except not nearly so interesting.

So I am not going to include any hyperlinks in this article at all, but be warned gentle reader, I will succumb.