blogging

One of the benefits of blog-writing, I am discovering, is that you are always writing in community.  Unlike a book, where people tend to exhaustively argue a complete, self-contained thesis from beginning to end, a good blog keeps things short and sweet. It is less concerned with creating a fortress of logic than with giving some food for thought that readers can quickly digest, comment on, and respond to in their own blogs.  Writing in that way is a really good discipline to learn, because it encourages efficiency and clarity, don’t you think?  Feel free to let me know how I’m doing!

I’m lucky enough to have time to look over my blog subscriptions in Google reader almost every day, and I usually find at least one or two things that keep me thinking for the rest of the day.  When I find something especially noteworthy, I may re-post it here for your benefit.  If you like what you read, you can click over to the authour’s site for some more!

Hooray for the blogosphere