Blogging, what's the point?

Why does Andrew Sullivan blog? Why do even regular people like you and me blog? People blog because blogging has its own unique different style and form when compared to other forms of writing. Though many people think that blogging is a lot easier compared to journalistic pre-thought forms of writing, it really isn’t. Blogging opens the writer to immediate scrutiny the second the post goes online. In journalism, the writer will submit their writing to the editor, from where the editor will be the main audience and judge of the paper. However, as Andrew Sullivan has said, if the readers are lost then the blog will stop and die thus the readers must be semi-pleased. From this you see that there is a necessity to please a wide range of readers, compared to journalism where their papers can be aimed towards a certain group of people, not only pleasing readers but also interesting them and hopefully getting them to challenge the writer. Andrew Sullivan has also noted that he likes blogging because it gives you a true insight to their opinion before it changes after obtaining more information. Other forms of writing takes time to be published and even before published the writing will go through many revisions as information on a subject is learned. However, for blogging, post must be submitted now and not later which in turn takes away time for the writer to change his opinion on something. In a sense blogging is like a diary. It allows a writer to freely open up to the world about how they feel about a certain subject. Finally I believe certain people blog so that they can see how they have changed over time. Like I previously said, blogs are the true colors of the blogger. Thus over time a blogger can read all their old blog postings and see how their opinions of something have changed over time. Blogging for some is a profession that they go into, while for others (perhaps you and I) is just something we do to put out our thoughts to the world.