"Blogging is a curious activity.
It is solitary, in the sense that most blogging occurs when one is alone, but blogging is also communal in the sense that the very act involves participating in a larger dialogue.
Sometimes I think it is like the work of a monk of the Middle Ages, alone in his cell with a candle laboriously copying the books that will take their place in the international dialogues of the day.
At other times, I think blogging is more like spray-painting graffiti at night on top of the graffiti painted by those who went before you."
Franklin G. Snyder, Late Night Thoughts on Blogging... 11 NEXUS 111 (2006)
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