What is a blog?
Well, the name is derived from weB LOG.

The concept has been around for awhile and provides an outlet for self-centered egoists, adolescent angst and diarists with frustrated publishing ambitions.

Recently however, blogs have been accepted as useful tools even within corporations, to spread the word in a format that is less structured than more official paths.

Elevating the blog above a, usually, chronological stream of thought, is the ability to solicit feedback or comments, from readers. Blogs can become cults and some are widely read by a vast Internet audience. Some are narrowly focused on specific threads others ramble, covering vast arrays of subjects and still others are really dull.

I have no such ambitions. An Egoist? Yes. Self-centered? Definitely. Adolescent angst? I am a middle-aged teenager (or an undeveloped adult). And, a budding diarist. But why?

Not really sure. It will be an opportunity for readers to comment on my thoughts and observations and to add an alternate perspective. Hence the title, 'Jef's Perspective'. What is yours?

This Blogger service was particularly easy to set up. It can be used as a stand alone application or like mine, embedded into an existing web site. It is owned by goggle (isn't everything cool?).

so I encourage you to click on 'comment' next to any entry and flame away. Blogger also allows the easy insertion of other web pages that I may add comments to or just post as points of interest. Feel free to join in. I hope you will.

This is of interest; I just ran the spell check and it did not recognize blog or Blogger. Also not recognized is diarist and egoist.

You can add html code as well. Cool.