Entering the blogosphere

The Gazette's rival paper, The Springfield Republican, hosts a bunch of community blogs on its Web site. Most of the blogs are totally pointless, but the Republican runs an ad in the physical paper every week with excerpts from them. One week, the ad had quotes in it like these:

"Remember when you were a kid and you'd get new sneakers and suddenly it felt like anything was possible? You felt like you were running faster than ever before and no jump was too far. I've been reliving that feeling this week. I replaced the tires on my mountain bike."

"Today I saw a robin outside my house on Prospect Street. Spring is almost here!"

Someone at the Gazette cut out the ad and put it on the bulletin board with a note reading: "Why blogs will never replace newspapers."

That story somehow seemed appropriate for my first blog post. Since this is just a post about someone else's post about seeing a robin, it's doubly useless. And there's more where that came from.