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When everybody is blogging we become depressingly self-referential. Our worlds tend to revolve around the topics, by definition limited, that concern our blogs. The starting point of a particular entry may be, for instance, a review of an article I've read. Chances are good I'll continue by commenting on someone else's (to my mind, of course, wrong-headed) review of that same article. Having used my blog to explain why I think that person is wrong, he or she will reply, on his or her blog, and I'll feel obligated to do the same on mine. I may have started out dealing with an issue that might interest a wide range of people, but sooner or later things whittle down to self-righteous arguing that hardly interests anybody.
Another, simpler, problem also arises from all of us maintaining our own blogs. I'm a fairly fast reader, and If I have the time, I can read many blog entries in one sitting. The problem is, however, that I don't really have the time. Assuming that most of the people who blog also have jobs that they have to maintain by doing something similar to actual work, I can't figure out when bloggers, who, judging from the lists of other blogs they like that they seem to obsessively post to their own blogs, find the time both to prepare their own blogs and read those of others.
Go to: When do you get your work done?, or
Go to: I have dabbled a bit, or
Go to: The ethos of blog.