I'm sure you were already aware that today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD). I have definitely been eagerly anticipating this day for a while now, at least since Friday when I found out it existed. Unfortunately I am pretty sure no one in this coffee shop is aware of the occasion.

Over a year ago I signed up for a Twitter account on a whim. I work for an online company and figured I should investigate some of these hip new social media portals. The first few months I think I tweeted twice, and then one day for whatever reason I got it. Well at least I thought I did and began tweeting about 3-5 times a day. (Don't worry I do not fall into one of these categories... at least not most of the time.) Strangely I loved it. I loved sharing what I found entertaining and reading about what other people were talking about. My follower count began to increase. Some of them were of course spammers, but it was interesting to me that not only my friends but strangers were following my commentary. Some of them even responded to what I was writing. It really made me reflect on the whole peer to peer sharing and online communication thing. My sister thinks I am a complete fool, but then again she calls the internet the "interweb" and believes there is absolutely nothing valuable about becoming apart of it. When she heard I set up a Twitter account she pretty much lost all respect for me. Anyway, through Twitter and my exposure to various forms of online peer sharing I think it is all absolutely fascinating. As I mentioned before I work for an online company that happens to specialize in maintaining moderated QnA sites so I may be slightly biased, but I think that user generated content and peer to peer sharing online is gold. If you can weed through the useless commentary and pics people post of their pets/food there are some amazingly valuable resources and insights being shared that we can all benefit from. Maybe you will even get something out of what I write here. Maybe. At this point you are probably wondering if I am going to answer the question: why the hell did you name your blog "I'm not a blogger"? I mean the question is in the title of this post... Well, I'm not a blogger. I am a person drawn to becoming as involved as I can on the internet. I am willing to try out any sort of media today's users are interacting with to create the content we find online. I have have my own website, created all sorts of social media profiles, and even have my own QnA site. It seemed only natural that I investigate blogging especially since I surprised myself by embracing microblogging so strongly while on Twitter. So here I am attempting to be a "blogger" if there is even a standard definition for... should I say us? I guess we will both find out soon enough. Cheers.