You might wonder, where exactly am I going with this blog? And that's precisely my point (I think). Why does everything have to lead to something?

Perhaps blogging doesn't have to have an obvious narrative, or what you'd call an "and-then" structure. Blogs can wander off, meander (but then again, that last word usually implies an ultimate destination), and in some cases (like my other blogs) vanish into an always already virtual void.

Because what have I written here so far? I posted entries on:

• Blogging
• Artistic research
• Marking papers
• Money as life
• Media convergence

And these topics don't seem to lead anywhere. Perhaps all they do is map how my mind works. And you might ask, isn't that the case for personal blogs? They aren't like niche blogs or company blogs, complete with a VMG (vision, mission, goals).

And readers (virtual or actual) can be certain I'll write more entries on other sundry topics, though they might wish a pattern to emerge -- a pattern (like the previous seven entries on blogging) that would somehow cohere and resemble a narrative however tangential.

Because the human brain always looks for some order out of the chaos, right. And that may really be why blogging is our current mode of figuring out what all this means.