A note about blogging

A note about blogging

A good blog exists independently of people reading it.

Even if no one read my blog, I’d still write it. Not exactly sure why. Maybe it’s something like this — I would still cook even if I was the only person eating.

I write because I am a writer. It would be the same if I was being paid for writing vs doing it for free, which is pretty much how I’ve always blogged. There was a brief time when pieces I wrote here were edited and published by Wired. But I still wrote the same stuff.

Some people seem to feel the need to justify blogging, blogging is still alive they say, but it’s actually more than alive blogging is a cultural fixture.

For those of us who call ourselves bloggers, this is good advice coming from Dave Winer.