The Blog About Blogging
Posted by Sam at 9:01 PM

For those who know me, and follow sambot.com, you'll already know that blogging and blog culture is an important part of my digital lifestyle. Not only am I an avid fan and an addicted reader of blogs in general, but I myself am a blogger.

This blog however, serves a dual purpose. Unlike sambot--where I blog about life's absurdity, coffee, Apple computers, or whatever else happens to float through my consciousness--this blog will focus exclusively on the act of blogging itself... including the technology behind the medium, the subculture that develops, and the unexpected (yet nonetheless impressive) ways that other bloggers find use for this continuously evolving mechanism.

The aforementioned duality refers to another driving force in my life; the constant quest for new knowledge. Specifically, I am speaking of my current enrollment in Graduate School. I am about to embark on a course of study where blogging can be considered a byproduct of its engaging field. The Masters program is entitled, Interactive Communications, and it is just that; the understanding and deployment of interactive content through various mediums of communication.

I can think of no better means of illustrating the significance of the growing subject of Interactive Communications than by an example of blogging itself.

...and thus, this subset of sambot.com is born. Welcome.

A final note before I conclude this pivotal first post: You might ask yourself, "Can one consider themselves a blogger simply by keeping a blog?" Yes. It does not matter what you write about. It matters that you write is of value to yourself.

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