I use a widget, Feedjit, and am always surprised by how people from all over the world find my blog.

I read a post yesterday that speaks to this and also to your post on scrambling (love it!):
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_essay

I hate the idea that all blogging is good for is vaulting you up the Google or Technorati rankings. I couldn’t care less if nobody reads my blogs (for a long time nobody did, and for the most part, barely any do now).

The past is powerful. The Future is now. Put a camera in front of you and what most want to share with the world is likely your Purpose. I believe if more people figure this out sooner in life, we will have greater brilliance among all.

I’m not a professional writer, evident in my informal style and excessive use of expetive but I quite enjoy writing, particularly with that bratty yet somehow informed voice. I’m also a lunatic for crappy movies and know a lot more about them than any one man should. It just makes sense. Somehow I’ve managed to scam more free stuff out of the deal than I ever would have imagined.

Most importantly, though, I’ve tried many times over the years to become an actual published writer and it’s a complete pain in the ass. The dance that you have to do with gate keeping editors at this or that publication is just not worth the trouble. Not when you can spend a few bucks on a domain and hosting and set up your own shop, thus becoming your own editor. I think that everyone has something worthwhile to say. It’s up to them to get into a groove and actually say it. Blog platforms make it so stupid easy that there is no reason that everyone can’t be expressing themselves without someone in charge telling them that there isn’t a story there or that no one will read what they have to write.

What’s most important these days with bloggery is that the power is now in our hands. It’s up to us to make it happen and get the word out about ourselves. I certainly did.

I’ve loved writing ever since I can recall – as a kid at junior and high school I’d be writing stories (some got published in the school magazine, woot!).

I carried that on after school, in that I wrote poems, stories, song lyrics, etc, until it made sense to become a freelance writer.

I think the reason I blog is two-fold – to share whatever knowledge I may have to whoever feels it’s interesting, and to receive new information back from peers and contemporaries.

And as a writer yourself, you’ll know how lonely it can get sat behind a desk and computer screen, so the interaction of the blogging and social media community as a whole makes it all worthwhile.