Blogging?

I've wondered for a while now if blogging was something that would interest me. Generally, I came to the conclusion that there was not that much about my life that I wanted to share with the world. For similar reasons, status updates on Facebook and Tweets are never really caught my attention.

However, I am very interested in some of the very useful applications of "Web 2.0" technologies and the potential of cloud computing and social networking. I have sought out these technologies in order to aggregate stories I would be interested in reading, bookmark things that I would like to return to later, and keep in touch with friends.

It seems that blogging might be a way to combine all of these functions into one place, and for that reason I am going to give it a try. Many of my posts will thus be designed to link to things I want to share or come back to - hence the name "Posterity." I will also talk about some of the other sites that I am using for cloud computing or information aggregation.

Should this prove to be fulfilling and helpful to me, I am interested in expanding my usage. Being a teacher, I am particularly curious about potential classroom uses, such as class discussions and to reach out to the school community.

At the very least, it should be an interesting experiment!