When I first thought about blogging or heard about it, I thought, "Oh, it’s kind of like writing a column.” But the truth is that a blog is way more ephemeral than even a daily newspaper column. It’s sort of like a soap bubble. […] You should write them quickly. You should get them out there. And understand that the purpose of them is not for them to live for very long but to be sort of “pricked” by other people. […] A blog is kind of the beginning of a conversation.
24 May 2007
pricking soap bubbles
Writer Nora Ephron was interviewed yesterday on our local public radio station. She made some remarks about blogging:
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Agreed. I started off blogging as if I was compiling a book- I would try to write monumental treatises that would last a lifetime. More and more I'm finding that the scrolling of an article off the page is not a tragedy, but a relief, because it signifies the temporal nature of my thoughts. Even if I write a book some day, the week after it is published I may have a different set of ideas closer or further from the truth, so the blog more accurately expresses what's on my mind than printed media.
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