That wouldn't happen in a blog post.
Blogs are ordinarily considered a personal form of writing. The Boidem, because
it's hosted on a university server, has a harder time being considered "personal". But a sentence with a high degree of personal content like the link that
led to this page fits the context of the Boidem, yet isn't the sort of thing I'd write in my blog. That's not only for
the obvious reason that the blog doesn't play around with hypertext, instead
using links only to connect to items from which I quote, or to which I refer. For
me (and when it comes to blogs I suppose that I can only write about my own
experience) blog posts reflect on an event or something I've read somewhere else
(ordinarily on another blog) and attempt to take a position on that event or writing,
and explain why I've taken such a position. Boidem columns are a considerably
more open-ended sort of writing where often I start out expecting to take a particular
point of view and only toward the end realize that through my writing I've convinced
myself of the opposite (in this particular case I needed only one paragraph). A
blog post contains internal reflection, but ultimately attempts to be part of
a public discourse. Boidem columns often start out as a reaction to a public discourse
that become internal reflections, and refractions, and are content to stay that
way.
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