“Thoroughly modern” blogger Millie Garfield explained one of the great things about blogging when she told* reporter Maura Welch that in real-life conversation, someone else is always trying to talk…
“But on my blog I can finish my thought.”
Isn’t real life conversation often exciting, meaningful, intimate, full of surprises, and in so many ways better than writing in blogs?
Of course. But writing things down so that you clarify your own thinking is also of value.
And I’m glad that Millie and all the rest of the wonderful bloggers I read are finishing their thoughts and then letting us read them.
* p.s. There’s lots more interesting stuff from Millie and Lisa Williams and Elisa Camahort and more in Welch’s article about BlogHer (Yay!),
“Women tap the power of the blog,” Boston Globe, July 17, 2006. And thanks to Steve Garfield for a post with linkage to all the blogs Maura mentions.
Real life should also have more hypertext, don’t you think?