“Why Blog?” is a topic that seems to be kicking around a lot recently. Jock Gill asked that question over on Greater Democracy. Andy Coote asked “Why write?” to a group of people who are oriented towards business blogs over at Ecademy.

I wrote a reply, mostly to Jock’s question at my blog, Orient Lodge..

Yet in all of this, I think Rick is right to focus on the appeal of the personal aspects of blogs, on the sense of it being more immediate, in all the different connotations of the word ‘immediate’.

Back in August, I wrote a blog entry at Greater Democracy referencing E.B. White’s book, One Man’s Meat. I believe that E.B. White’s writing a fifty years ago provides a good example of how to be personal and relevant. I do hope that as people write blogs with specific goals, they will keep the personal feel. Reading White is probably a good step in that direction.