Beware! The Blog II

Blogging career. The very words fill me with a simultaneous buoyancy and nausea...anyone who has something to say can write it, publish it on the web for free, and possibly even make a living doing it. Sounds like my kinda place, at least in theory.

Instant journalism, in a sense -- just add blogger. You are your own media outlet. Unfortunately it seems you need to have something to say...though how hard can it be to find an audience in an age where we do literally have 500+ TV channels (apparently Discovery now has a dedicated channel for each animal species), countless web sites, and more amateur "entertainers" than we could ever have time or inclination to experience?

My friend Beth has recently started blogging...

it's friday and other things for which I'm grateful
http://www.tgif-andotherthings.blogspot.com/


...and so did Lilia:

DriveALotAndDrinkRealFast
http://www.liliaworks.blogspot.com/


These are what you'd call personal blogs, which I think limits readership to one degree of separation unless either you're Dave Barry or you lead a pretty interesting life and have more than a modicum of writing talent.

I, however, am imagining something quite different. (Emphasis on imagining.)

And then the small chunk of my brain that's still vaguely working kicks into gear. No doubt, it's true what they say about things that are too good to be true...