Re: 2 Fantasy Rants for the Price of One

In article <dkvt86$1ahv$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Garrett Wollman <wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>See, that's the thing I don't get. If I have any "doings" I would
>care to inform my friends about, I can send them an email, which they
>can also "read at their leisure". Or make a phone call, or even visit
>in person, but however I would do it, I would do it in *private*. I
>cannot fathom wanting to *publish* this sort of information, any more
>than I would publish a diary (were I the diary-writing type). When I
>do want to publish something, I have plenty of venues to do so
>(personal Web site, work Web site, Usenet, mailing-lists, letters to
>the editor of a newspaper or magazine, and on and on).

You don't have to use a blog as a diary, and chronological order (possibly
with subject tags) is a handy, low effort way of putting essays (if that's
what you're doing) into the world.

Also, there's a third thing that a blog is good for--interesting links.
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My two favorite colors are "Oooooh" and "SHINY!".
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