There is no doubt in my mind that the blog revolution has forever changed the face of digital publishing. No longer is one required to be a designer, or ever have an ounce of understanding of web publishing to create visually appealing content easily and with a minimal amount of effort.

Blogs like people come in many shapes and sizes, while some may choose to use them as a digital diary or journal, others see them as an easy way to share family updates with friends and family. Have something you feel strongly about? Have something you want to rant about? Have some great art or photos you want to showcase? No problem. Start a blog.

Blogs let us easily publish our feelings, moods, thoughts, desires, art, photos and just about anything else that comes to mind.

You may be reading this thinking — Yeah… thank you Captain Obvious for stating something that is well, obvious! Had I just read this on another blog, I too would have the same thought. However, there is a reason for my reflection.

This weekend we attended a social event, in the course of getting up to date with friends a lady we know expressed confusion over this site, she was looking for family updates and wondered if we had a “family” blog.

I was a bit stunned, in my mind eleven22.org was a personal blog, in my definition of “personal” it included a wide variety of topics, including posts about family, flickr photos etc.

I was quite possibly the first time that I ever actually stopped to consider that others might now perceive eleven22.org in the same way that I did.

Yes, it was an incredibly narcissistic view for me to hold. It took that simple act of befuddled confusion on the part of our dear friend to make me aware of it.

I don’t see eleven22.org changing in content or scope because of this revelation, but I will forever be more cognizant that other people might view it in a way other than I originally intended. Hopefully the result of this knowledge will be better written posts.

Setting Sail Captain, originally uploaded by Eleven 22.

Well how cool is this, I am posting this message and photo directly from my Flickr account! Simple pleasures for a simple mind I guess, LOL.

I would have killed to be able to listen to Maverick’s thoughts going through his head when he launched this balsa boat he and I made.

As it went over the falls I thought it would hold up, but within seconds it was rolling around in the waterfall foam. My visions of it being the next Kon-Tiki were quickly dashed.

One thing that I dig about the net is that there are always nooks and crannies to explore and new things to see. Viral videos, web based games, you name it — there is a plethora of crap to suck away your time.

And what I am finding every now and then is that I will run across something that is well establish but which I have to date ignored which suddenly captures my interest and become a part of my daily life — Flickr is one such site.

It all started when I found myself looking for an easy way for my friend Donna to upload her pictures and incorporate them into her site. Flickr + A convenient WordPress plugin made that process much easier and better organized.

When I started this site I decided to put some of my favorite photos into a photo gallery and again, Flickr was easy, and worked well. Throw in some birthdays, events and a vacation and Flickr became further ensconced on my life.

Part of my nature is to always try to answer the question — “Well this is really cool, but what other cool things can I do with it?” It didn’t take long before I was asking this question about Flickr. Thanks to their API, people are developing new ways of extending Flickr all the time which has been a lot of fun to explore what other people have do.

Aside from that, its fun to explore what other people are taking pictures of, there are some funky things out there. Sadly, my cat montage is not getting the rave reviews that I was sure it would.