Response to "Why I Blog"

After reading Andrew Sullivan’s article “Why I Blog”, I started to get a better understanding of why many people feel that blogging is so revolutionary and why Mr. Sullivan wrote this article.  The first thing that stood out to me and something that I started to realize more and more is that without comments blogging really isn’t very different from a news article.  News articles tell a story or give an opinion and so do blogs, they both are written by an author and both involve a target audience reading the specific article but the huge difference between the two forms of information are the comments on the blogs.  It’s not to say that news articles don’t get comments it is that the comments usually some a few days later and the responses even later than that.  With blogging the comments and reaction to the post are instant.  The readers can give their opinions and even challenge what the author has wrote and this is what makes blogging so unique.  Another point that Mr. Sullivan makes it that blogging is much more personally.  He says something along the lines of its hard to blog and not have your own emotions spill over into what it is you are writing about because most of the time the writing is occurring very close to the timing of the event you are writing about.  He gave an example about 9/11 and the terrorists attacks talking about how he could go back and look at how he felt certain times after the event had occurred.  Mr. Sullivan also made a point that bloggers can post many times a day and the information can be posted instantaneously rather that have to wait until the next morning for a story to run that was breaking news the day before.  The power of blogging is such that authors can inform readers and the readers can also inform the authors via comments and post of links to further advance to conversation about the blog post.  This article made it easy to understand why blogging is an important form of information sharing and has peaked my interest very much into the world of blogging.