Long video, but with some insight into this thing I’ve taken up. Comes with a lengthy and thoughtful essay, too!
No columnist or reporter or novelist will have his minute shifts or constant small contradictions exposed as mercilessly as a blogger’s are. A columnist can ignore or duck a subject less noticeably than a blogger committing thoughts to pixels several times a day. A reporter can wait—must wait—until every source has confirmed. A novelist can spend months or years before committing words to the world. For bloggers, the deadline is always now. Blogging is therefore to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.
Thankfully, Atlantic writer Andrw Sullivan says that the “unfinished” nature of blogging is actually one of its strengths. Whew.
Oh, and just for fun, to explain the allusion in my title:
(I note, that’s two “Airplane” references in as many days. I had no idea that the movie was such an influence on me. Next up: do I speak jive?)
Grant Hamilton
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