The Role of Blogs in Transition from Reader to Writer

Blogs are a tremendous advance in the process of making creative activity, writing in particular, available to the broad masses of people.

Previous such advances: the invention of the printing press, compulsory school attendance and the resulting mass literacy.

The amount of fantastically interesting thoughts and marvellous images that appear in the blogosphere is enormous.

Will B. used to hate blogs. According to him, the vast majority of blogging consists of pieces along the lines of "Today I fed my fish. I am going to ride my bike."

Perhaps that's true, but within the great heaps of dirt an occasional gem will be found. With such vast quantities of writing being produced, the gems can be found relatively often.

Anyway, Will has started his own blog now. Writes about computer games mostly.

I don't have a fish to feed.

But I am about to go ride my bike.