The Blogger’s Creed:

For quite some time, I have considered writing a blog. But I’ve hesitated because of how the concept was first described to me. “A blog”, it was explained, “is a blah, blah, blah, blah log. You write about every tiny piece of minutia in your life.”  As I browse many of the blogs on Blogspot.com, that seems to be the case. 

In stark contrast to the main stream, I believe that just because something can be blogged about, doesn’t mean it should be blogged about.  For instance, I have no intention of revealing either the color or the girth of today’s stool.  And I hope you have no desire to read about such.  

This led me to an interesting idea:  The Blogger’s Creed.  Yes, rather than offering a simple commitment to warn you of BS in my blogs, I thought, why not publish a commitment, a creed, a battle cry for other bloggers to rally ‘round as well?

So here it is:

I promise to post nothing if nothing is all I have to say. I will treat my readers with the respect.  Just because something is mildly interesting to me does not mean that the entire internet needs to know about it. I will only publish interesting and thought provoking ideas.  I will omit minutia whenever possible. Although BS is sometimes necessary for comedic effect, I will clearly mark BS whenever it appears in my blog entries.

So there you have it; my first pass at “The Blogger’s Creed”.  Now if I can just get the rest of the internet to go along with it.

 By the way; it was beige.