A Blogging Apologia

This post continues my thinking on blogoneutics...

For most of us our relationships seem rather random. We gravitate towards people with whom we share common understanding, or with people who we "connect with." That is, we find some common ground. Geography is important. We tend to meet and develop friendships with those who are in close proximity with us. There is a personal connection that is irreplaceable.

Pockets of bloggers develop who share commonalities. I think that often these are deeper connections of mind and spirit than we might otherwise encounter in the "real" world. We connect through the ideas and expressions that we put into our posting or our commenting. We can take some time to think the topics through, or we might choose a more stream-of-consciousness, shotgun-style response. The medium of writing and responding seems to offer a superior opportunity for exchange and dialogue. In the past written correspondence was prominent for this kind of exchange. Blogging expands the person-to-person correspondence into a community correspondence.

Ideas at the speed of broadband.