To blog is therefore to let go of your writing in a way, to hold it at arm’s length, open it to scrutiny, allow it to float in the ether for a while, and to let others, as Montaigne did, pivot you toward relative truth.
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Writing for the Atlantic, Andrew Sullivan employs the same defense of blogging that I tend to espouse when challenged by the technotards. (In my case, academic colleagues are usually the culprits: “Oh, you’re actually paid to do that?” Oh yes, yes I am indeed, Adjunct.)
— Why I Blog [The Atlantic]
