An interesting thing occured on Monday, November 24th: One of the legendary web 2.0 digerati apologized.

Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg.com, one of the most talked about sites on the planet, apologized for a rude and sexist joke on his most recent video podcast Diggnation.

But it got me thinking about something that I’m surprised I haven’t blogged about yet, especially considering some of “craziness” I’ve experienced through the interwebs.

Blogging, for most part and for many is a one-way street.  It’s a digital megaphone to the public.  It’s a personal soapbox and a electronic pulpit.  It’s a place where apologies aren’t required.

But that’s if you hold the aforementioned definition of “blogging” to be true.

And for some, it is.  For others, like myself, blogging is about relationships.  You see, I’m more interested in using my blogs to build relationships with other people instead of making sure that my own voice can be heard in the blogospheric galaxy.

And just like in real relationships, things get tough:  Feelings get hurt, things get twisted and go all Robbie Williams on you (read: “Misunderstood“).  People get passionate and emotional, people get upset and say things they don’t really mean, people sin.

All this means is that people have to learn to apologize, and do it on their blog.

So when was the last time you used your blog as a digital confessional?

Today is the 2nd week of the Weekly Tech Blog Topic Series.

If you’re confused about what exactly this is, go here to read the first post ever and the guidelines…

Ah… guidelines.

Ok, today’s Tech Blog Topic is:

When your first blog post EVER and what prompted you to start blogging?

Seth Godin wrote an interesting piece the other day about how the “personal” blog has been suggested by many to be dead.

Seth, though doesn’t believe that’s true, and neither do I.

He goes on to say that blogs can, and perhaps, should be about the readers instead of the inward focused blogging of you.

But perhaps you can’t go all the way to the other side of the pond.  And that’s where I honestly sit today, and that’s why I decided a little ways back to divide my blog in half.

And can I be greedy for a sec Seth?  Pretty please?  I want both worlds!

He’s partitioned blogs into the “newspaper-like” ones and then the ones that look more like a “book”.  I’m aiming for the sweet spot between the two, a place where it, functionally can act as a “news source” but reads like a tasty soliloquy.

I call this “Community Anecdotes”.  (Yes, I just made that up).

A place where each post can live by itself and provide valuable content for the reader independent of the whole but which carries the mark and mission of the umbrella goal…

Whoa, that just rhymed.

In any case, what do you think?  Where do you stand (or sit)?