Blogs = Good
I think that blogs are doing the writing world a ton of good. How many people do you know personally who blog? Probably a few, right? How many blogs do you read every day?
The number of people who are discovering blogs – both reading and writing them – grows every day. More than two blogs are created every second of every day. There are about 1.6 million posts every day. On July 31, 2006, Technorati tracked its 50 millionth blog.
Pooh-poohers talk about the lack of grammar, the lazy word choices, not to mention that blogging simply glorifies online writing, hurrying the handwritten letter into an early grave.
That’s flawed logic, I think. Sure, there are blogs with abominable writing and there are the blogs detailing their day’s activities in boring detail. There is also much bad writing in print magazines, ads, and handwritten letters, for that matter.
But look at all the writing that is going on online. That is a great and wondrous thing. I suspect some, maybe many, bloggers start their online journals as a lark or for fun or to be hip and in style. I bet any number of them find themselves thoroughly enjoying posting, particularly as their writing grows richer and fuller during the process, something that I think can’t help but happen with lots of practice. If you’re posting often, you’re getting lots of practice.
And I firmly believe that the more you write, then, well, the more you write. Someone who blogs for fun and sport may be, after a while, more inclined to write a handwritten letter to a friend, to send a note to the editor of their local paper, to try their hand at crafting maybe a poem or a short story.
I think writing in general, whether it’s blogs or The Great American Novel, helps us to become more discriminating readers, as well. Writing more helps you with reading and reading more helps you with writing. The two are co-dependent like that in the best possible way.
They also become more aware, more livers of life – looking around and mining the world around them for material, maybe without even realizing they’re looking for ideas for content but yet feeling of this world more so than before.
The number of people who are discovering blogs – both reading and writing them – grows every day. More than two blogs are created every second of every day. There are about 1.6 million posts every day. On July 31, 2006, Technorati tracked its 50 millionth blog.
Pooh-poohers talk about the lack of grammar, the lazy word choices, not to mention that blogging simply glorifies online writing, hurrying the handwritten letter into an early grave.
That’s flawed logic, I think. Sure, there are blogs with abominable writing and there are the blogs detailing their day’s activities in boring detail. There is also much bad writing in print magazines, ads, and handwritten letters, for that matter.
But look at all the writing that is going on online. That is a great and wondrous thing. I suspect some, maybe many, bloggers start their online journals as a lark or for fun or to be hip and in style. I bet any number of them find themselves thoroughly enjoying posting, particularly as their writing grows richer and fuller during the process, something that I think can’t help but happen with lots of practice. If you’re posting often, you’re getting lots of practice.
And I firmly believe that the more you write, then, well, the more you write. Someone who blogs for fun and sport may be, after a while, more inclined to write a handwritten letter to a friend, to send a note to the editor of their local paper, to try their hand at crafting maybe a poem or a short story.
I think writing in general, whether it’s blogs or The Great American Novel, helps us to become more discriminating readers, as well. Writing more helps you with reading and reading more helps you with writing. The two are co-dependent like that in the best possible way.
They also become more aware, more livers of life – looking around and mining the world around them for material, maybe without even realizing they’re looking for ideas for content but yet feeling of this world more so than before.
posted by Keetha at 9:20 AM
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