I think, therefore I blog.

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I think, therefore I blog.

I've not ever bought one of those fancy ''artist's diaries'' from the newsagent. But I have used botany books in a similar way--doing daily entries of both texts and images. Science project books, with blank pages could, too, be filled with pix 'n texts. Donald Friend's ''visual'' diaries are interesting, inspiring and fun. Daily journal with pictures. Still, I've been mindmapping for years and years, now, in the margin spaces of my many textbooks. Lots of cartoons and diagrams, all coloured in with various colours of hilite pen or biros. Pictures and clippings pasted or taped in, too. My many textbooks have become sort-of visual diaries/artist's diaries. Cheap digital cameras, too, allow everyone to photo-blog; and software, such as Audacity, means anyone can knock together an audio-blog; and YouTube can be used for video blogging. There's no excuse, now, not to blog in all and any directions, using any media, and in any combination. Come to think of it, I've really, too, been a sort of email visual diarist, for over a decade, now, creating colourful illustrated emails with coloured texts and wallpaper, animated images and background music. A fun way to share with relatives and friends.