As you'll find from my entire site, I'm completely infatuated with all facets of technology, from Atari Punk Consoles to javascript network enumerators to simple tools to make my life easier. I've been blogging since I was 15, but never with the focus on anything as I do now on technology. However, I've been wondering for quite some time why I do what I do, and why others do the same, i.e. blogging about stuff most people know about already.

Many of the blogs I have read in the tech blogosphere are people blogging for the sake of "hearing themselves talk." In fact, I often wonder if peple stumble upon my site and wonder the same about me. Frankly, there's a reason I read blogs, and there's a reason I read blog comments. That reason is because I love to hear differing opinions. However, I write my blog so I can write out the ideas, thoughts, and concepts that I find interesting.

The above image is the result of a study performed in the 1960's by the National Training Laboratories Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. I've read literally hundreds of tech books, about various topics. However, I had never heard of this study, or had even seen this graph. Where has it been all my life?

According to the graph, you have a 10% average retention rate of what you read on this blog. However, as I write this blog, I potentially have a 90% average retention rate of the things I demonstrate here on this blog. This means that I come out ahead with this blog. So I have come to conclusion that bloggers benefit more from their blogs than their readers do. I have yet to find a blog that isn't that way, and I'm sure that other bloggers will agree.

Wanna write better code? Start a blog and write about it...