all you ever get to discuss on blogger communities on orkut is your blog url and a redundant discussion about why people want to blog.

the second one "why do you want to blog seems to have a time-tasted answer that just probably is asked to read the same enlightening, delightful answers, like requesting for your favorite music to play at a jukebox where no other song exists. so well, i kinda visited one such bloggers community, where someone had posted that clichéd question. and i thought, let's try answering in a different style. Through all the blog posts, I have had some experience, that clears one thing, that reasons to blog vary not only for person to person, but also phase to phase. i envision growth of a blogger into 4 phases (5th is optional i'd say for someone who doesn't earn through writing on a blog. i'll quote the phase definition part of my reply in the community...over here.

phase 1: "hello world". we blog for the first time literally just to see how easy it is to have a web presence. there are some who leave blogging after one post...reason 1: got a better site. 2: all content is made out of the author's contribution, which not all bloggers are eager to spend time on. for those who continue onto the transition into phase 2 are likely to show spurts of extra courage under the veil of anonymity. in phase 1, most of the comments'd come from spam or you're near and dear ones...unless you're vincent cerf or some important person who's opinions are eagerly awaited...then u won't remain anonymous anyways.
phase 2: this phase has the blogger having his own blog friends' network, basically starting with getting his friends into signing up, so they can leave comments and consequently quote each other on the articles...y'know trackbacks. for articles to be worthy of linking to they should have some relevance greater than the articles relevant to just the author. in this way, given that there is no shortage of like-minded people, the blog does receive comments from unknown sources (new visitors...not necessarily spammers) and this leads to phase 3.
phase 3: this phase is about u (da blogger) to connect with new people interested in blogging bout the same stuff as you. depending on how much time you could spare, you could simply be writing review (e.g. kinda) articles, following up comments left by users...some might give corrective info...do incorporate that...after verifying :P i'll say if u've come this far, you're pretty much interested in taking up bloggin seriously as a core platform for expressing your point of view. what's wise is to start with sharing your opinions on topics that you are most fond of...it'll help create an outline sketch of the blogger by his interests. this way even people around you, in the real world know more about you...learn more about you...and perhaps so do you, about them...the word of mouth advertising happens again.
phase 4: the phase where it's too difficult to remain anonymous...reasons..1) you letting people know about you (the famous addicted blogger) just so they can trust, whose blog they are reading and just so that your articles are getting more hits and counter-opinions...mine i'll say is an exception coz everyone in the real world accepts this online handle of mine... ;)
at this point u'd have surprise visitors (in your real life) telling how diligently they've been following your blog, and what they'd liked in that...don't worry they won't point out posts (maximostly) coz your blog content would have become humongous by then.. :) they'll also be defamatory comments by jealous people...u cud ignore them, delete them, backanswer them, or give them a dose of their own medicine.
phase 5: community journals, team blogs, collaborative efforts...this kinda might start in phase 2 or 3 but here it's about joining bigger collaborations...e.g. "cool software tips". some sites built along the blogging model but which actually serve content for public consumption...e.g. boinboing.net, gizmodo, engadget...don't have much non-technical examples to site, just because i don't surf them...

so i hope that gives a faint outline of the roadmap of my blogging experience and tries answering the evergreen question. now over to the next question....do you call yourself a blogger, if all you have is a blank blogger account with just one entry "hello world" and no info in your profile??