Weblogging up the Email Escalator

Halley has a cool blog today about why blogging is important, reminding us that we (all of us) are inventing it as we go, and pointing out that the train we’re on is accelerating faster than it may seem from inside.

She points to Doc’s must-read musings about why we blog. He ties it to the urge and the need to talk with one another. Great stuff.

I want to point to one, far more trivial, point about weblogging. For me and apparently for lots of us, it’s turned into a way we escalate email. When an email exchange gets interesting, we go public (and permanent) with it by blogging it. Email no longer is a dead end. We have a new way of turning the private into the public.

Just one more example of how the Web evolves by discovering and then repairing every hole in connectivity. We’re stitching ourselves together. It’s how a social species becomes more than it is.

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