Deciding on a blog

Over the last few years I have become a private individual enjoying what I would call 'my seclusion and solitude'. Many do consider me as a friendly, outgoing and energetic person. I am so. However I have become more selective with networking through channels such as Hi5, MySpace, Friendster, Facebook to name just a few. I am not an active member on any such on-line communities. However, I think it beneficial for my research to start my own blog, even if it is just for the fieldtrip part of my doctorate research. I have long been thinking whether to blog or not, whether to join Facebook to advertise my research. Advertise not understood from a marketing promotion perspective, but to make my research public and known to those interested. Thus, this blog will be an account of my fieldtrip, I intend to record experiences, feelings, emotions I have during my fieldtrip.