Writing is funny.

I just spent the last hour writing a small piece about community based on some things that I’d read this morning. Lots of links, timely – even a few romantic notions of my own thrown in for good measure. In the course of finding more links for my post, I started to realize that the basis for what I was writing was complete horseshit. Had I posted it, I probably would have offended at least one person because of the inaccuracies that my own perspective introduced.

I’m really glad that I stumbled across the facts that I did – and disappointed that all I have to show for my efforts is a bunch of baseless bits occupying space on my harddrive as a useless unfinished draft. I’m also wondering how many other people my uninformed perspective has upset over the years. First impressions have a way of sticking around – and they can be wrong. When perspective is based on inaccurate first impressions it becomes really hard to build bridges with other people because they’re left wondering, “What the heck is he talking about?”

This, I suppose, is one of the important differences between Blogs and Media. Its just me here folks, and sometimes I screw up the story. Sometimes I catch the mistake, and sometimes I don’t. I’m just glad that you are all intelligent boys and girls who possess the capacity to separate my truth from my tripe.