The will to blog is a complicated thing, somewhere between inspiration and compulsion. It can feel almost like a biological impulse. You see something, or an idea occurs to you, and you have to share it with the Internet as soon as possible. What I didn’t realize was that those ideas and that urgency — and the sense of self-importance that made me think anyone would be interested in hearing what went on in my head — could just disappear.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25internet-t.html?ex=1369281600&en=32dd415ebcbb575b&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
There are colleagues of mine who write award-winning blogs (David Noon at UA-Juneau, for example) and college friends denied tenure over theirs (Chicago didn't like Dan Drezner's public reflections, but Brandeis embraced his full humanness as an economist and a self revealer).
All I can spout on this one is, "Be kinder than necessary, because every one you meet is fighting a battle of their own."
Five million people homeless in China, on top of Myanamar's floods, melting polar ice, and the signs of tremendous Earth changes. And "we" still care about Paris Hilton's new BFF?
It's beyond tragic.
