Blogging is great. It should be no surprise that I think so. I put a fair amount of time and energy in to it. Of all the people I know, the person that I think would enjoy have a blog of their own is my 80 something year old grandmother. I am aware that she is a bit outside of the normal demographic for this kind of thing, but I think she would be great. Why? Well, because she has for many years worked very hard to send emails to all of her family; her children, grandchildren, cousins, 1st, 2nd and many times removed. In these emails she goes to great length to update everyone on not only on what she and my grandfather are up to, but on what everyone has been up to. No small task. I have 2nd cousins once removed that I have never met and likely never will, but they know about my accomplishments and I know about theirs. All because my grandmother efforts. It seems to me that blog would be the perfect forum for this communication. Not only would it give her a centralized location to work from, no more worrying about keeping an up to date list of email addresses but all of the readers would now be able to leave comments that the others could read.

I tried to explain this to my mother. It didn’t go well. I think she believes that only geeks like me can keep a blog. She was also worried she would get out of the loop because she is not one to surf the internet. I attempted to show her an RSS Reader so that she could see how easy it could be to keep up with reading a blog. Just subscribe and check for updates. As easy as checking for email. She wasn’t impressed. Well, at least I tried. Boy, if you can’t get your own mother interested in your blog you are probably in trouble.

I think I will send an email to my grandmother tonight and try to explain the basic idea to her. Who knows maybe she’ll be successful and will link to me! ;)