I came to JoeUser.com originally because I had discovered Brad Wardell's blog and enjoyed reading what he had to say. It wasn't required daily reading, but every few days or couple of weeks I'd stop in and catch up. It was a pleasure to read thoughts from an average guy that didn't mind sharing his opinions.
I came back one day a few weeks ago after a long absence and discovered the JoeUser.com had changed. There were other people writing. I discovered NickyG first and enjoyed reading all of her articles, the lady has style. Since then I've discovered several more writers that I've been enjoying in addition to Mr. Wardell's articles.
But, now that JoeUser.com was accepting other writers I thought I would give it a go. I signed up for an account and wrote an article on religion that was pretty lame. I followed with another forgettable article about a woman's descent into codependancy. Both of those articles are gone now because they just weren't the voice that I want and they weren't good blogs.
Then, on a whim, I wrote about my Mac in the article I Joined The Cult. Interesting enough (to me anyway) it was placed on the main JoeUser.com page. Thanks Brad. It got a lot of looks there, but not many comments. OK, there really wasn't much to comment about anyway.
My next article on terrorism was OK, but the timing was wrong (I discovered several other articles written before mine right after I posted it). This was followed by another article on outsourcing that surprisingly enough was featured again. Wow.
In my initial article Hello JoeUser.com I said I wanted to try and make the change from reader to writer. This has been a pretty hard change for me to make. I think I know how to approach this but I'm still not sure. I'm going to write about what I feel like writing about. There is no grand plan, just whatever happens to be on my mind at the time.
I hope some of it becomes interesting reading. I'm still looking for my voice so I guess time will tell.
Thanks for reading.