Why I'm Blogging

The main purpose of this blog is to save my ideas about education, ethics, computer science and linguistics in a format that does not rely on shorthand and is the most crash-resistant which I can afford. That is to say, this blog is meant to represent certain currently emerging discoveries of my own mindshare.
 
     When you write a blog, you expect some stranger to come along and read it; even if it's only a handful of strangers a week. As a result, you write better. This makes it easier for you to recall your own ideas and build a usable mental database. I learned this from the piles of composition-books I used to use. I pick them up and read them now and find that only sentence-fragments have meaning; the rest of the page being leveraged on concepts and information which was only in my consciousness at the time of their writing.  Blogs make for superior notes.
 
     There is a belief in many forums that all blogs are merely rambling statements of opinion. I believe that all forum posts are merely rambling statements of opinions. Therefore, those forum flamers are merely stating their opinions and should not be taken too seriously. I am not an expert on the subjects in this blog (yet), but I intend to be by the time I get my PhD. I will continuously check the articles in this blog, correct them, change the terminology and remove them as needed. Objectivity is impossible in any form of literature. Anyone who says otherwise is not being very objective! But if you can limit your observer bias to forms of expression which do not affect the subject which you are trying to impart in a noticeably detrimental way, then you have done the best any individual (human or otherwise) can do.
 
     Having said all that, I do intend to use the articles in this blog to write more publicly-available work; like an Introduction to Haskell or a Proposal on Developing a Language of Universal Scientific Primitives. For now, I do not expect (nor want) any reader to automatically believe or respect the ideas in this blog. These articles are just a collection of my momentary educational themes. Still, if only one person reads this blog and feels that I am reinforcing an idea which needs to be further-developed in the public sphere, then I will feel justified enough to ignore the nagging feelings of impropriety and general embarrassment that blog-writing imbues in any socially-aware author.
 
     In other words, blogging is writing and anyone who writes is performing a service to themselves primarily. A good writer goes one step further and tries to do a service to strangers too. If you think that being published by Addison-Wesley makes you an expert, you are seriously misinformed. Likewise, assuming you are an expert when writing a blog is a recipe for humiliation. But, a good blogger can find a way to occupy the space in between by accurately chronicling the challenges he or she faces while pursuing a goal. If you can zero in on specific obstacles facing the beginner, you might actually find a novel solution which can eventually lead you to the path of expertise. We are witnessing the emergence of a world hive-mind wherein anyone with a logically valid idea can eventually affect public knowledge. This is a good thing. Embrace blogging but never accept anything I say without reasoning about it or doing your homework first. This is just as true with Addison-Wesley's author's as it is with a nobody (like me) in the blogosphere. In that way, my idea is as good as anyone else's, as long as it is logical and the premise it is based upon is regarded by science to be plausible.