Whether you blog because you have always been the type to keep a journal and blogging helps you splatter your opinion and life online… or you blog because you want to use the power of social networking to make yourself popular a la lonelygirl15…

The basic question is ‘what is it that motivates people to blog”?

If we take away the easy answers associated with marketing and potentially making money on some level from “becoming a blogger”, what is left? The “exhibitionist” in all of us.

Blogging is the web2.0 solution that evens the field for everyone to play on. It really stretches the boundaries to the point that people can put as much or as little of their soul online for all to read, consider, formulate an opinion, then choose whether to engage in conversation to share a piece of their own soul for everyone to read.