Why Blogging & Why English

Written 2 years ago

My first blog, Games Are Art, was an attempt to periodically write solid arguments on how games were the essential form of artistic expression in the age of software and the internet. But I got bored: my range of interests certainly goes beyond games, so I stopped blogging and focused on starting up Popego (a company that builds meaning).

I’ve been toying with the idea to blog again for a while, but there were certain thoughts that somewhat made me put on hold the idea:

• “Would I add more noise to the internet?”;
• “Woud I have time to post at least every two weeks?” and
• “Would I become a blogger?”

Then, I was reminded about the cool things of blogging after a talk Santi Bilinkis gave in a random event:

• It’s the best Mental Excercise. This is very true. It’s not the same to argue about something by talking (or tweeting) than by actually writing and putting your thoughts in order.
• That’s it, actually.

So I decided to start up a new blog, and make it more personal and open themed. But then I asked myself: “In what language should I write?”

You probably guessed that I picked up english as a main choice. To my fellow Argentine and Latinamerican friends, this might seem a somewhat bizarre and pretentious choice. But here’s what I think:

• I’m in for global conversations. Writing in english opens your reach to a global audience. Spanish will very likely keep you constrained to local readers.
• Practice. Being good at a language, always requires constant practice, right?
• Everyone understands it. If you don’t, then quite honestly you might not be that much into the topics I like to talk about (technology for instance).

But… there will be one exception (maybe):

• Argentina related issues. My friends know I like to talk politics, and sometimes that means I like to share views on how things are going in my good ol’ country. That must be written in spanish sometimes, because I can get emotional (and speak from the guts).

Well, now that I’d set up the rules, feel free to suscribe to this blog if you enjoy reading, commenting, tweeting or etcetering about:

• Technology
• Movies
• Politics
• Music
• Robots
• Maradona
• Comics

Thanks for reading, and I shall now begin the blogging.