Why should I start a blog?

While attending the SLA2008 conference in Seattle last week (http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2008/index.cfm) we were all recommended to learn new Web 2.0 tools, especially twittering at the conference. So I started writing my tweets at http://www.twitter.com/jarmosaarikko.

At the conference there seemed to be several SLA Bloggers' meetings. These people turned out to be a group of people in the SLA IT division which I'm not a member. But I thought I'd give this a go and as this Blogger service provided almost automatic creation for google acocount holders, I decided to try this one one, and it seems easy enough for now.

This is yet another learning experience for me in an effort to provide new and innovative approaches to our scientists at Metla in the new eScience or Science 2.0 environment. Partially this is also a personal experiment into the roles of my Information Service in providing support in developing the researchers' skills in using Web 2.0 social networking tools.

Future will tell how much energy and wits and writing skills I'll have to reveal my ideas and thoughts amongst the few international networks I'm involved with.