Having an anti-blog attitude was stupid. I admit my mistake. Clicking through random blogs on blogger.com leads to the root of some of my hesitation - there are a lot of unfocused, uninteresting, and/or dead blogs out there. The only ones to find success, it seems, are highly focused music blogs. (These account for the 2 blogger.com blogs and the 1 wordpress blog I'll check out once in a while.) Problematically, I no longer keep up with new music as I once did.
The only things I keep up with are video games. This is also problematic - many professional publications already handle news and reviews better than I could. This leaves me with opinions outside the realm of game reviews. That's what I'm going to try - commentary on the industry and the products that might not be offered by some giant web publication. There are some gaming blogs that offer some truly valuable opinions of this nature already, but they're usually in combination with news, interviews and the like. I have some confidence that I will be able to bring something new to the table by focusing only on analysis. At the time of this post, I'm in a New Media Theory class that has given me enough mental ammunition to start taking on this task.
It's odd to post this. There's absolutely nothing to the blog yet, and in turn, no one will actually see this upon the time of its original posting. I'll leave you (really, me) with something hopeful.
