Welcome to My World
Welcome to “The Attention Seeker” on pauljfesta.net. This is my second foray into the chaotic, comical (intentionally or otherwise), and experimental frontier of blogging.
And we truly are in the covered-wagon stage of the Blog, even though some have made high-profile inroads into news, politics and sports. We don’t really know how blogs will ultimately fit into the role of media as we have known it. To some (cough..oldmedia…cough), bloggers remain a nuisance and a joke, to others, essential daily reading. Some can’t even define what a blog is.
In truth, blogs are about individual voices being heard without the use of a vehicle or medium, like the national news and sports media. Blogs cut out the middle man. That being said, most bloggers are limited in their coverage or opinions given the fact that they don’t have the same access to the people and events they are covering that the traditional media has. That’s why the role of the blog in American and world media still hasn’t reached it’s crescendo - and that’s part of the fun.
As for this blog, The Attention Seeker will focus mostly on sports, mostly of the New York variety, mostly on baseball, and mostly on the New York Mets, about whom I have blogged for the past three seasons. I will also toss in an occasional movie review, photo essay, political editorial (though I don’t want to be one of those people - you know…), and basically whatever else I bloody well like.
It is, after all, my blog.
Happy reading!