Blogs: The Publishability of Thoughts

Internet did not radically alter the form of writing. You still had to choose between a report, an article, an opinion piece, or a narrative. All it did was to make cross-referencing easy and accessible through hyperlinks.

But the blog has opened up a whole new form of writing, with the publishability of brief pieces. Before the arrival of blogs, no one would have ever thought of publishing a 100-word piece on a topic (however relevant it was) except when it was written as a letter to the editor in the print world or as a comment on an article (or as a response to a question) on a website. Otherwise, you had to wait until you had enough number of short pieces written around a theme to publish them in a book form.

But the blog has changed all that. Now, no thought need to go unpublished for fear of non-extensibility.

A blog is a monolog and a dialog at the same time. And I’m not extending this argument any further.