I did it, I created my very own blog. Frankly, I have always been skeptical of entering the blog world (aka the blogosphere) on a personal basis. My wife and I have a family blog that we use to periodically update our family — but that is different. Why? Because on that blog I have a known audience that I know is interested in what we have to say. According to Technorati’s “State of the Blogosphere,” Bloggers collectively create close to one million posts every day. Do I really feel like I can say something to actually contribute?

However, this semester I am taking CS404 at BYU and the majority of the grade in the class is related to my blog. Assignments will be turned in via the blog, which I think is brilliant. The professor, Dr. Charles Knutson (who happens to be my boss as well) is on to something. He has observed that the general quality of writing is much higher when you have to turn your homework in via blog instead of printing it out on a piece of paper and turning it in? Why? Dr. K calls the old fashioned method “writing for the trash can,” and I couldn’t agree more. There isn’t much motivation to write your finest quality work when its just a TA that is going to read it. But if the general public and future employers have the opportunity to read it? Bingo.

And just so we’re clear, I am not being graded for this particular blog

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