Wherever the Winds May Take Us...

And now for a proper opening blog entry.

I'm creating this blog for my Digital Culture English class at Brigham Young University. I don't have any specific thesis for this particular blog, as of now, but I hope to arrive at one before the end of the semester. At the moment, THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG IS to explore all interesting subjects in Digital Culture that I feel so inclined to write about. And hopefully make these subjects somewhat interesting to my classmates and the occasional wandering reader. And my teacher.

Although many used to argue that the internet provided for a disconnected existence that kept you stuck in your individual isolated world full of discrete and isolated experiences, I argue differently. Although my thoughts are currently scattered and unorganized (like the old view of the internet) they will someday reach a connected stream of thought that will build into a sophisticated and sculpted theme of brilliance. Or at least that is the end goal that we hope for.

The internet is so interconnected, and millions of people (with millions of ideas, all tracked and documented on the vast expanses of the internet) are sitting here at my fingertips as I write this blog post. Even though it seems like it would be easy to get lost in these many ideas, images, websites, videos, and more, I argue that we can find something meaningful from the internet. We can find connection. We can find connection better than we ever have before. We can pull ideas together, we can pull people together and build something great. Or rather we can continue to build something great. We touched on this in class in the last few days. Anyway hopefully my ideas will also eventually reach a point of connection. I'm not saying that I will have millions of ideas posted on this blog, or that they will all connect so easily. I'm just saying that eventually I will reach a thesis. Sometime. And maybe I already have something with this idea of using the internet as a form of connection and creation, rather than a form of separation and destruction.

Anyway, I'm excited to start sharing my digital culture exploration with you--my audience...of ZERO. Soon to be larger, I'm sure. I'm also warning you that I'm excited to start sharing my ideas in half-concocted thoughts that are spelled out in my everyday Facebook and blogging voice. Enjoy.