2nd Blog: Andrew Sullivan

Blogging on the internet is a source for venting, communicating, and expressing your own opinion. Anyone with an internet connection can blog. Blog websites such as Blogger.com, LiveJournal.com, and OpenDiary.com let you blog for free. The names of these websites help define what blogging is. Thanks to modern technology, people can express themselves on the internet.  Posts can be read by others. People can write a comment expressing their own opinion on the subject of the blog. Andrew Sullivan, a well-known blogger, has written an article called Why I Blog. In it he explains why blogging is so important. Sullivan writes “It is the spontaneous expression of instant thought- impermanent beyond the ephemera of daily journalism”. What he means by this is that blogging is thought up on the spot, it is not prepared on a draft; it is not edited, but simply thought up, typed, and published within seconds. Blogging doesn’t have a desired word count; the post can be as short or as long as you want. You can literally write about anything, from how your day went to the newest current events in politics. You don’t need a prompt, a key reason why Andrew Sullivan advocates blogging. Sullivan values blogging because it is instant. He writes “A reporter can wait—must wait—until every source has confirmed”, and “blogging is impermanent beyond the ephemera of daily journalism” while blogging is made of someone’s own opinion on the subject rather than the raw story. It is not edited by an editor, allowing for another person’s opinion. Instead, it is written personally and is your own opinion, not anyone elses.