Some clever bloke in the film Contagion said: “Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation.”
It was meant as an insult. But actually, it’s spot on. Graffiti is one of the oldest forms of communication.
The Romans did it. The Egyptians did it. Go to Pompeii and you’ll find graffiti from 2,000 years ago.
Some of it’s political. Some of it’s rude. Some of it’s just people leaving their mark. Because that’s what humans do.
They want to say, “I was here.”
Blogging is the same. It’s unfiltered, unsanctioned, unapproved. No committees, no gatekeepers, no middle managers giving feedback in the margins. Just someone with something to say, saying it.
And yes, some of it’s rubbish.
Some of it’s rants about bad service at Nando’s. And some of it’s conspiracy theories about how pigeons are government drones.
But that’s the point.
It’s raw. It’s direct. It’s democratic.
Anyone can do it.
Which means, amid all the noise, you also get truth. Real thoughts, real opinions, real stories. Not the polished, PR-friendly, corporate-approved version.
And that’s why blogging, like graffiti, matters.
It’s people talking to people.
And if that upsets the grammar police, good.