There are hundreds of thousands of blogs on the internet. Why start another one? I don’t intend to compete with anyone for audience, I only want to present to family and friends some ideas and beliefs that I have discovered and adopted. It is easier for me to express my thoughts in writing then to try and represent them in a conversation.
In his preface to the book, The Day Man Lost, John Toland bemoaned the mass of books published on World War 2. “To pick one’s way through the frightening … mass of overpraised war literature that has been dumped on us we must look for help from within. The solution is to set up our own rigid standards and then apply them ruthlessly to the growing mound of books beleaguering us. He suggests three measures to determine whether a book is worth our time: 1) the book should be well written; 2) There should be new material presented of some importance, or new insights given; 3) the book must be credible. Toland could just as well have been talking about Blogs. I promise that I will follow these standards as much as possible.
Craig Richards