This whole blogging social media thing was totally a mystery to me up until just about the beginning of 2007.
Oh, I'd seen blogs referenced as I browsed the Internet, but I hadn't really ever experienced on first-hand. Then I got hooked on Chuck Hollis' blog at EMC (I used to work for Chuck), and the rest (as they say) is history.
I found blogs about TiVo, and blogs about photography, and blogs about - well, about just about everything I can imagine. I quickly learned that I needed a blog reader to aggregate all the blogs that interested me, because I simply couldn't visit each of them directly to see if there was anything new. I first tried NewsGator, but eventually switched to Google Reader. Then I learned about wikis from wikipedia, and then I got a Facebook account, and before I knew it, I was knee-deep in a whole new subject domain. After months of prodding, I started the storage anarchist using TypePad, hooked up with FeedBurner, and adopted Windows Live Writer (Beta) as my blog editor.
