Are blogs really useful?

Does anybody out there consider think that writing a blog is useful. I mean is’nt it so much navel gazing and introspection. I really think that serve one purpose tho. It migh be useful to keep current evens in context. In contrast to the news stories you read hear and generally bombarded with, a blog entry can give one a sense of prespective and an interpetation of events that require no agenda beyond an honest reaction and interaction to those events.I seriously doubt that anybody who finds these ramblings are going to find most of what I write here of any use to them. I started this blog ( and my other attempts at blogging ) to develop and improve my typing and writing skills. I expect that even for that purpose that it might be a little difficult to discern that , given my frequency of posts. I do feel encourged by that old koan that ” a long journey begins with a single step forward’I really hope that someday someone will actually access and read what I have to say. It would make the efforts worth accomplishing