Generally, I was very impressed with Andrew Sullivan's analysis, style, and reflective piece on blogging. To be honest, I did not put the "web-log" connection together as the roots of the word "blog". Learn something new (and obvious) everyday. Some of the key words I copied included:
- concise
- accurate
- self-description
- spontaneous
- instant
- accountable
- consequences
Although I got a little lost in the writer's boat/water analogy, he did a phenomenal job structuring his entry and engaging my attention for the full four pages. Blogging encompasses values and ideals that I come to appreciate - "free-form, less formal, and higher risk of error". In addition, the open, user-friendly platform of blogging breaks down the barriers of entry that traditional publishing creates - "endless delays, revisions, office politics, and last-minute cuts for space". I have very little patience for clouted information and bureaucratic inefficiencies.
Moreover, the ability to share one's thoughts, words, actions, and reactions in real time opens the door to valuable personal and societal development. The floodgates of feedback mechanisms have have opened, and the blogging outlet has revolutionized our rights as individuals and citizens.
Sullivan also touched on our discussion of the print vs. online print media. Today, I do not think they are direct substitues. Will opening a novel or favorite magazine on the couch become a past time? Print journalism's drowning business model and technology's capitalization with consequences that I certainly experience and Sullivan boldly ended with - a distracted attitude and demand for instant, usable information.
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