Response to "Why I Blog" by Sullivan.

Response to “Why I blog” by Andrew Sullivan

 

Andrew Sullivan makes a lot of good points in his writing about blogs. I now understand where the term to “Log something” comes from. His definition of the origins of logging things ties into blogging in my opinion because we, just like the mariners, are throwing something out there to look back at and see how far we have come. I enjoyed this reading a little bit. One of my favorite lines was when Sullivan wrote “Blogging requires an embrace of such hazards, a willingness to fall off the trapeze rather than fail to make the leap.” This stuck out to me as a key point. Another key point that Sullivan makes is that “The key to understanding a blog is to realize it’s a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies. If it stops paddling, it sinks.” This line really helped me to understand blogging. After reading all of Andrews writing, I couldn’t help but feel pushed away from the idea of blogging in my future. I don’t feel like I need to tell the world how I feel. I don’t believe I really have anything super important to say to strangers on a daily, monthly, or even yearly basis. I tend to be a more private person. I often look at all this technology and the shrinking of the world and its mysteries and wish it away. It’s almost like nothing surprises me anymore. And that is sad. Also, I don’t take criticism very well. :)