In response to reading Andrew Sullivan’s, Why I Blog, there are dozens of reasons for someone to want to use a blog.
His view of seeing a blog as a Web Log is truly one of the best ways to describe how he feels about this important technology. It isn’t just a means to post updates about your feelings on how you hate Justin Beiber or why you believe Denver is better than other Midwest cities. It is a tool to express yourself more meaningfully, whether like Andrew says to keep a web journal, or just make it a diary about you.
His anecdote about the captain’s log on a ship is especially intriguing, to Andrew it seems a blog is more about one’s past experiences. Like how a ship logs it’s various ports of call. The logs were meant to provide a real account of the “ships” journey. Likewise that is what Andrew believes a blog should be to people.
Further on he discusses the quickness of the blogging world and how you have to act fast and deliberately as to keep up with trending topics both outside your own life as well as what is happening with you. The key words in that discussion to me are that blogging is “free form” and that is what the major attraction is to not only Andrew but also many others.
Finally, the freedom that Andrew seems to be discussing towards the end has allowed for a new era of journalism as well as a way to make my generation want to speak freely as well as write more. People are no longer limited in the journalism world to deadlines and top notch fact finding, things may be more incorrect but this methodology does not make blogging any less valuable in his mind.
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