Compulsive reading

I.M. Beck, in his weekly column for The Times, writes about the world of blogging and singles out fellow blogger Jacques Rene Zammit. From today's Times:

A phenomenon that has hit us recently in the context of the propagation of ideas is the blog, a sort of online diary posted onto the net by anyone who can string a few words together.
You can read about virtually anything in the blogosphere and I have found a number of blogs to be compulsive reading, which is moderately surprising since I had originally been of the idea that the mental meanderings of others were not going to be of interest to anyone but themselves. Looking back on the last sentence, I find it arrogant in the extreme, because this column is, frankly, nothing more than a blog off the net.

One blog that I found illuminating is to be found at akkuza.blogspot.com. It is written by a young chap who starts out by telling us that he has been described as arrogant and rude. He goes on to prove or disprove this description and it is an exercise that repays the effort made to have a surf over to the site to see which of these two aims he actually achieves.