Well, well, well. Who’d have predicted this, hmm? Not I. I am following a fashion trend, folks… how I scoffed five years ago when the newspapers reported on their own impending dooms, as a ridiculous new word burst into popularity.
‘Everyone will have their own blog in five years’ time’, they wrote, ‘and online reporting will change everything. In five years’ time, Tuesday morning’s newspaper will be so out of date, it might as well have been printed the previous week.’ Well, hmm, I thought. Here’s a deal: you can drool, swoon and make excited chimpanzee noises over your WAP-enabled phone all you like, reading blogs written by some dull old numpty living in Norwich, and I shall pay my fifty-five pence each day, and read quality articles, however dated, and once I’ve read my dated articles (which you weren’t complaining about two days ago), if I really can’t wait until the next morning, perhaps I’ll switch over to News 24.
Five years’ time is now here. Internet phones are the new Pogs, blogs are now causing the reports on News 24, and I am now paying ninety pence for my quality articles, which I can actually read the evening before, free of charge, on the newspaper’s website. Journalists fill their articles with quotes taken from Twitter, and I... I am that dull old numpty living in Norwich, nothing achieved, but blogging about it anyway.
At least the dull old numpties of five years ago could call themselves pioneers…
This, then, is an apology for my attitude. I sit in my garden now overhearing a plethora of interesting little nuggets of conversation from people walking past; a good blog should provide similar interesting little nuggets, going into just a little more detail to satisfy the curiosity we so often feel. (Yes, dear lady, if you don’t think your daughter deserves to be given a car, you certainly may give one to me…)
I will write up this blog, then, with my future in photography in mind, though aiming also not to alienate those of you who seek to avoid nerdy information on cameras you’ll never own…
…hopefully.
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