The nature of journals; how to get rich quick

I've been reading web journals of late and wondering about common elements. Is there a commonality among the individuals who choose this form of expression? And is there any similarity in what is discussed?

In maintaining a journal there is an obvious desire to be expressive, to offer information, to re-create and comment on experiences. However stated, there is a need to COMMUNICATE. With a private document, the intended recipient is the self; with a public one, both the self and others. Second, and this may be common to any net presentation, there appears to be a certain degree of PASSION. Third, the presenter has to have some FAMILIARITY with the presentation mode. No doubt, a journal could depend solely on graphics or images; nonetheless, one would need to feel comfortable with this mode. In a similar and more common way, one has to have some sense of the potential of language.

On to the next question. Again, the nature of a journal is going to imply a revelation of PERSONAL thoughts, experiences, emotions, etc. There is a great deal of variance here. Some journals go into amazing detail about emotional and biological issues. Whenever I come across one of these I think of Joyce's "Ulysses." There is a certain benefit in that nothing need be held back. Other journals are far more circumspect and more calculating.

These are very unscientific thoughts and may indicate nothing more than the path my readings have taken. Now that I think of it, I could just as well attempt to seek common elements among people who play rugby or croquet.

Over the weekend, I came up with a way to get rich quick. Have you ever noticed how annoying cell phones are? You're in a restaurant, suddenly a phone chirps, someone answers, always in a loud voice to be heard over the normal din, and you are exposed to overhearing an intrusive conversation. And what idiotic conversations they are!!! Have you ever heard one that was important? Usually the dialogue consists of "hello, yes, no, bye." Or there may be something akin to primordial grunting! Ugggg. Eeeerrr. Ummmnnn. Ahhhhhhh. Five hundred years since the Renaissance, and we have a conversation that would bore a Neanderthal. Now to the way to make millions. How about creating and marketing a device you can take with you that puts out an electromagnetic dampening field within a fifty-foot radius! No frequencies can penetrate it, hence no beeping beepers, or paging pagers or phoning phones!

Stay tuned, and next week, I'll tell you how to repel gravity using simple household items.

PAX!