Blogging as thinking in short paragraphs

Top 20 Definitions of Blogging by Debbie Weil [via Dina Mehta]. From all 20 this is the one I like most today:

13. A way to think and write in short paragraphs instead of a long essay (which no one has time to read anyway)

I think that the microcontent nature of weblogs is an important component of the mix that makes them so powerful: I can’t finish the report I’m supposed to write for a week, but at the same time I wrote a few weblog posts :)

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/12/10.html#a865; comments are here.

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