Reasons for blog creation & blog managing

[shootingstar]

I did keep a cycling paper journal over 15 years ago for a few years. Mainly to track daily & cumulative mileage plus observations during cycling or what I was feeling. Then it dwindled to only tracking my cycling touring trips. Haven't done it in ages.

Maybe Crankin, is to see blogging software as just another mechanism for communicating a particular theme (even if the theme is about 'self') and a platform for blog author to articulate in words or visually their thoughts/world perspective.

Since blogging software allows one to make a blog either public (viewable by all, searchable by search engines) or private for a pre-select group and not searchable by search engines, it could have therapeutic value for those who naturally would scribble thoughts in a journal and for purposes of privacy, limit access to audience. Committing words to electronic screen/paper helps a person think through a big problem or difficult stage in life.

Or simply writing a blog journal may help keep some folks by being a blog author, abit more accountable for some folks, if it's a training or lifestyle/diet change blog.

Some of these Wordpress blog free templates, for quicker blog site creation, would inspire a person for private journalling. Am thinking for counsellors working with clients who may not mind journalling as a process of problem-solving.
http://mashable.com/2008/09/19/top-wordpress-themes/

But imagine, things might be different in 30 yrs. The follks in nursing homes with time on their hands.. Yea, Internet access is gonna be a necessity for alot more facilities. Blogging and social media, has some powerful applications...to hold institutions accountable in various service areas.