Joining the Bloggers Park

Friends!! - I finally could not resist myself. Had been watching and reading blogs for quite some time now. It looks today every tom-dick-harry has a blog. Interesting!! If I go back even 5 years back chronicales, common places of adda (gossips), diaries, perzines or amateur press associations or even a community club were the common place to communicate/participate and all can be seen as predecessors of blogs. Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms. I remember there were few commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists and bulletin board systems (BBS). I remember way back in 1995 I was part of the translation list in Japan and would get 100s of email a day created running conversations with "threads", though that was not too common. Today some have likened blogging to the mass-obervation movement of the mid-20th century.. the world has changed - from am information age to the participation age. Not sure if this is for good or not.. that I see people stuck in front of the computers communicating..participating.. dating... creating their own space in the world. Hmm!! so had to start myself and check what this was with a couple of objectives. First, share about topics related to business and software engineering. How this is developing in Japan. Second, drive the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) campaign for India in Japan and have the Indian diaspora in Japan engaged. So lets me see how effective the tool "Blogspot" could be.