Artist Statement

By Joshua McClain

The web log, or Blog as the mainstream public has lovingly dubbed it, has become one of the most vastly used means of self expression over the past five years. The Blog has been created for the public use of conversing with other people on the internet. A person can tell their opinions and ideas to everyone who manages to stumble onto their Blog. Blogs have grown to allow people to make money just by blogging and leaving messages in the comments section of the Blog. With all of these tools and new ways of communicating, I want to see if there really is a lasting purpose for the Blog in the next few decades, before it is lost and forgotten the way E-mail almost has. Through the dissection of the Blog and its components I will try to uncover the pros and cons of the Blog in a fun and “personal” way. Giving the Blog human-like characteristics and having it find out for itself if it really should exist, is a fun way of finding its own purpose. Humans have to find their own meaning for life, so why shouldn’t this Blog. As you go through the Blog, which can be found at http://doimatter.blogspot.com/, please take some time to look at all of the links that are along the left-side of the screen. These links are self contained and are easily read quickly and their message is concrete. Also please read all five of Blog’s blog postings from bottom to top; the nature of the blog itself allows for a hierarchy of information, the most recent is the most important. Please leave comments at any point in the blogs I would love to read them and discover if they add to my ideas of the blogosphere or not. As always have a fun and safe time on the Information Superhighway.