I’m always happy to see a new issue of CPU on the kitchen table. Yesterday was no exception. Chris Pirillo’s column on “The Future of Blogging” is written from the perspective of someone who’s been in the Web game since the mid-90s. (You can read the first little bit of the article here. You have to be a subscriber to go farther, alas.) He accurately notes that blogs are a way to “scribble down a few notes and hit Send,” an operation that was too difficult before the widespread availability of blogging tools like the one I’m using now (Word Press). The key is that you have something to share, and a desire or need to share it.

Chris started with “Chris Pirillo’s Multimedia Madness” and the promise of “one cool MIDI file” a day. Now Chris is at Lockergnome.com, and he has a monthly column in CPU magazine. It’s interesting that I first ran into him in the magazine, which takes me to my blog to note the site on the web that you can go to by clicking a link in my blog. See, I want it all: magazines, newspapers, books, the WWW, CDs, DVDs, the works. (Okay, I don’t want VHS. Ugly medium.) Each connects to the others in interesting ways. Each presents a slightly different experience to the reader/viewer. Each is wonderful on its own. Together, their mutual reinforcement takes me farther and faster than I’d otherwise be able to go.

“Life piled on life were all too little,” as Tennyson’s Ulysses says.