Dear Reader, I… WILL… BLOG

It is a ridiculous question these days — to blog or not to blog?

The upside is immense and the downside so miniscule that the notion is not given a moment’s thought. If Twitter is “micro-blogging” then, of the under-35s, it seems to be only tiresome contrarians and technophobes who have not taken to their keyboard or keypads to record some sort of personal diary with some sort of regularity.

Of course I have tweeted semi-regularly but, despite being paid to write for almost quarter of a century, I have never, ever blogged.

There is a mixture of reasons from the insecure (Am I good enough on this medium and will anyone take notice?) to the arrogant (I am a professional writer and that means I get paid for my words thank you very much). Also, given the need to stand out from the crowd, there was a preening need to impress that turned me off. In sport, my specialist area, bloggers made mountains out of miniscule morsels of information and possessed a confidence that those with more knowledge would never portray. Others might even interview themselves in order to support the self-importance of their views.

The keyboard should be merely the vessel by which your thoughts travel from one brain to another but, for some, it seems to change their entire soul.

But then when I have tweeted about my own sports teams, non-football, I have been relaying media reports in the public domain and yet fellow supporters ask questions as if I were some oracle. You can understand the propensity to change.

Youngsters with a brass neck and solid social media research can break stories from their bedrooms these days. If you add language skills and you may just have a career.

So call it a New Year’s resolution, change of heart but I intend to blog throughout January to see how it goes.

There will not be 31 posts and some maybe pieces published here for other outlets.

But, dear reader, I WILL BLOG.

Let me know what you think.