Why White Bicycle?

I've called this blog the White Bicycle. It's a reference to the white bicycles of Amsterdam, which I have to confess I've never seen. But I am told that the city is littered with these white bikes that anyone can pick up and ride to their destination. Then they leave it for someone else to use. The white bicycles it seems to me are sort of the people's vehicles. I like that sort of idealistic concept.

I liked it so much that I called an ill-fated student magazine the White Bicycle some years ago. I told my fellow students to go and write whatever they wanted, to let their imaginations run riot and whatever they came up with the 'people's vehicle' would publish. They came up with fuck all! And I ended up writing most of the magazine myself - idealism running into the sand.

Still I always liked the title and the liberal-leftist notions that it seemed to arouse. And the whole blogging thing isn't a kick-in-the-arse of the people's vehicle concept, so... here we go again.

Hope somebody takes the time to read this. But I have the awful feeling that bloging is talking to oneself and far from the WWW holding out the Republic of Letters it's really just a Tower of Babel. Write and let me know what you think.