Why I Blog? For Fame! And Chicks! And Soda!
Randy answered a meme called “Why I blog”, and unfortunately 
he tagged me, so here goes:
Why do I blog? Well, I can’t answer that without saying why I started blogging. Almost three years ago, I felt like I needed a way to keep track of this great Google company, and I was just barely into LiveJournal communities at the time, so I figured I would start a Google community, convince others to contribute, and sit back and read the news as it came in. Well, the contributers never showed up, I wrote all the news, and moved, first to BlogSpot, then to my own address.
Along the way, I discovered RSS (far better than LiveJournal, obviously), Google Blogoscoped (which, had I discovered properly before I started, probably would have stopped me in the first place), got married to a wonderful woman, became disillusioned with the newspaper business, and somehow blogging became my full-time job. You know, I used to think I was going to be a big-time newspaper reporter, now I can’t picture myself in that role ever again.
So, I’m pretty much stuck on some odd path, traipsing through the tech community, with a meager salary, a wife who always wants new clothes, and a lack of technical skills or industry contacts to move up to a job that pays the actual bills I face every thirty days. I have no idea how I’m going to conquer this one, but I have faith that good things happen to good people, and that somehow I will find a way to support the two of us enough, because I really wish I could afford a baby to bring into this world.
You know what’s the weirdest thing about this journey? I’ve applied to only one company, all through my travels, for a job, a chance at my dream. That company? It’s not Google, it’s Microsoft. And I get the feeling that as long as I keep trying, I’ll get there. Why am I reaching for Microsoft and not Google? Even I don’t know, but maybe that’s a story for another day.
I’ll tag:
Philipp Lenssen
Miel Van Opstal
Andy Beal
Barry Schwartz
Tamar Weinberg
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Oh man, I’m going to have to think about this… I’m sort of on vacation till after Pesach/SES NY
Chag Sameach and hopefully I’ll answer your call before I run into you at the Hilton 
Comment by Tamar Weinberg | April 5, 2007
[…] Another meme has come to town, and this time I’m answering this one here (my last meme was posted over at 10e20.com — 5 things you don’t know about me). Nathan Weinberg (still no relation) tagged me and Barry, among a few others, and while I’m totally under the weather with an awful cold, I decided that I have to oblige right away because I’m going to be inundated with family and conferences over the next week. […]
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Blogged.
Comment by Tamar Weinberg | April 6, 2007
I don’t think my URL works.
http://www.techipedia.com/2007/04/06/why-do-i-blog-let-me-count-the-ways/
There you go.
Comment by Tamar Weinberg | April 6, 2007
Ha, nice redirect notice, Nathan!
Comment by Tamar Weinberg | April 6, 2007
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Funny! Chicks and soda huh?
Comment by eve | April 9, 2007