The Joy Of Blogging

I read something very strange this evening which came as a great surprise to me. Not quite the chin-down-on-chest surprise, more of a mind-blowing, well-I-never surprise. Someone wrote this sentence on their blog and it threw me completely:

I thought blogging every day would be a burden, but it actually became a great source of joy.

Now, the reason why it threw me is because of who the blogger is. He is, I think, the last person in the world that I would have expected to write such a sentence, to have discovered such a joy. Not because he is unsuited to blogging, or that the Internet is alien to him, but because absolutely everyone who knows him automatically (there’s a pun there) associates him with the world of weblogs, and I mean in a very big way indeed.

Now, some people will be able to work out just who I mean from my pun (above), and will probably be just as surprised as I was. How can he, of all people, suddenly have discovered the joys of blogging each day? Isn’t it second nature to him?

For those of you who don’t get the link to Automattic – the company – let me briefly explain. Automattic is the brainchild of Matt Mullenweg. That’s right, the Matt who gives us, through Automattic, WordPress. And the post where he admits this sudden revelation is here. There remains only one question which he, sadly, doesn’t answer: why has it taken him so long, despite his business interests, despite WordPress and its universal success, to discover the pleasures of blogging each day?

Love & Kisses, Viki.

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