Andrew Sullivan: ‘Why I blog’
“Why I blog” by Andrew Sullivan, is a worthwhile read for anyone who blogs, and anyone who reads blogs regularly. No columnist or reporter or novelist will have his minute shifts or constant small contradictions exposed as mercilessly as a blogger’s are. A columnist can ignore or duck a subject less noticeably than a blogger committing […]
“Why I blog” by Andrew Sullivan, is a worthwhile read for anyone who blogs, and anyone who reads blogs regularly.
No columnist or reporter or novelist will have his minute shifts or constant small contradictions exposed as mercilessly as a blogger’s are. A columnist can ignore or duck a subject less noticeably than a blogger committing thoughts to pixels several times a day. A reporter can wait—must wait—until every source has confirmed. A novelist can spend months or years before committing words to the world. For bloggers, the deadline is always now. Blogging is therefore to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.
Click here to read the piece at Atlantic.
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