The internet is an amorphous blob of personal space and
public domain. Few things can be said to
embody both concepts. Upon the internet
becoming the internet, conceptual understanding progressed at a snail’s pace because
people were asking what the internet can do before asking what the internet
was. The same thing is happening to the
blogosphere. To steal a concept from Mark
O’Donnell: people are asking what blogs can do before asking what blogs really are.
In my opinion, the two ideas, what blogs are and what blogs
can do, are inseparable because embedded in the identity of blogging is what it
allows you to do. As an anology: what I
do is teach, I consider my identity- what I am- a teacher. I am what I do.
Blogs are what they allow people to do.
The following 5 benefits refer to professional
articles as a result of blogging rather than a rambling personal diary reminiscent
of a Bret Easton Ellis publication- but blogs are also blogs because they allow
for this as well…
