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I subscribe to a lot of blogs and read them religiously. Lots of reasons to do so, but one that stands out above all else is inspiration. Blogging is writing. It may lack the formal professorial elements and not have publishers, editors and the like scanning the prose with a red ink pen, but it’s still writing. One of my favorite bloggers, Lorelle VanFossen, today delves into some subject matter that too often we don’t tend to explore, but belongs, or at least should rise to some level of personal consciousness.

We all know folks out there who have made their mark ranting and raving their way through the blogosphere in some Jim Rome kinda blowhard way. For many this works and I fully admit being an avid subscriber to some of these guys (if for no other reason to get a good laugh every once in a while). For others this approach just doesn’t meet their needs and could be hazardous to what they are trying to accomplish. In the end, it’s personal choice that will ultimately be the determining factor in whether or not to write controversially or “colorfully.”

It is worth thinking about however.

I’ve often said, write as though you were going to be reading your posts over your cereal and coffee in the next morning’s daily paper. Don’t write anything you may regret down the road. Although blogging is an easy thing in terms of getting your message out there, it becomes much more difficult to retrieve something after you’ve hit the send, post or publish button. You may be able to erase it from your system, but it may already be circulating and being saved on someone else’s. I believe there is a place in the blogosphere for the “ranter.” However, if it’s not something you personally are comfortable with or something you’re into at all, I don’t believe it’s something you have to do. Be true to yourself first, then the rest of this stuff will likely just fall into place.