Hello.

This blog has taken a long time to arrive here. A lot of thought (probably too much thinking!) about the why and the what for doing this.

WordPress makes it relatively easy to set this up. All the blogging advice (and blogging how-to is a burgeoning industry in its own right) says that you gotta have a particular topic to attract a readership. The buzzword is “authority.” And as the web techies know, Google has developed the means to establish technical authorship so that – if you do it right – your name and photo appears in the search results based on the keywords closest to you.

To thrive on the interweb, its a miasma of keywords, back links and guest posts.

Hmmmm. Wonder if keyword copywriting for epitaphs is a niche opportunity for establishing cybernetic eternity…

So anyway, fool that I am, I am plunging into this blogosphere against the popular wisdom. Inspired by the James Altucher approach to just put oneself out there as one is. Not exactly naked, but at least as honest as one can be.

By the way, I look forward to name-dropping the good folk I happen upon here in cyberspace who are influencing my own sense of Internet identity. This global, virtual town square called the Internet — where great thinkers, profound  wisdom, and a good dollop of the inane to balance things out — is truly a great wonder of our time.

And with the launch today of this blog, I now formally and officially make a commitment to best effort in creating some value for you who choose to invest your own precious time in reading these musings…..