I like the words that Mark Pilgrim wrote some years ago:

I have long believed that blogging, when done at all, should be the byproduct of my activity online, rather than an activity in and of itself.

In that sense, a blog is where you keep track of your online activity, a web log. It's different from a web journal, where you register and share your thoughts, fellings, hobbies, opinions, and the like.

So, what I want is:

• to put my thoughts about some of the stuff I read in order
• a personal way to archive, annotate and share my favourite links
• to share my discoveries (and my mistakes too)
• to write useful posts about my projects
• to learn to write better english
• to write in spanish about some stuff only (or mostly) available in english
• an idependent, not centralized way to achive it all (yeah, I'm talking about democracy)

Let me put it in other words: you search, browse, read some online texts. Maybe you bookmark or comment someone's blog entry. That's the web. You do it all the time. You do it once and once again. After reading some posts you will be having a lot of ideas -well, maybe just half an idea, one idea if you're lucky. You search again, browse, read more about it. Then you wanna put all your thoughts in order, to share them, to archive your ideas. That's the web too. And when you do it, you link to your sources. Because that is what the web is: a linked world of ideas. No matter what all those gurus say, web have always been social.