Prelude to a Flex Blog

When people find my website, www.hgarland.com, they’re going to notice whether i have a blog. When i go to a website that contains useful information, I expect it to have a blog. That’s what i look for. If it doesn’t have a blog, the site looks incomplete. It just has empty white space where I expect the orange icon to be.

Suddenly blogging has hit me.
There’s a lot of Flex bloggers that went to Adobe MAX 2007. I learned a lot more about MAX from my blog subscriptions than i did from any computer magazine or mainstream tech news website.

I see the path and future of blogging.
Blogging is going to change software development.  There is a ton of information out there about Flex in the Blogosphere.

With blogging, I can specifically opt-in or out of any blog at any time.  Every blog has individual accountability, so I can turn off anybody who fetters my blog subscriptions with ramble.

The power of blogging extends beyond the world of Flex development.
This blogging thing is gonna be a whole revolution when it catches on in the political arena and everything else where information has been controlled or locked up. The mainstream newspapers aren’t going to be able to filter the everyday messages that people hear anymore because the everyday messages will come from more and more everyday individual sources.

As a developer, i no longer have to be a passive sheep by only learning about the fads that a few mainstream magazines have caught onto. I can actively pinpoint individual nodes of knowledge that make the most sense to me. As an early adopter, that’s important because bloggers are faster to describe emerging technologies.

Blogging is a system of many people and many actions.
I also think that blogging has a reinforced strength in its ability to be a 2-way communications device. I subscribe to a few Flex blogs, and sometimes one blogger I know posts a comment to another blogger’s post. This creates a conversation-like environment, and enables me to focus on many different and informed angles of blog posts that interest me.

What I have discovered from this, is that the system of blogging works even better when everybody becomes actively involved in all parts of blogging, from production to consumption to replying.

So I’m giving a shot at the former.