Thoughtful

Here’s another compelling reason to blog.

I’ve seen the artificial urgency of tweets & toots bleed over into emotional essays on public mailing lists. New participants join a list and immediately make entitled demands. Fearful bordering on paranoid assumptions are used to state assertions of “facts” without citations. Arguments are made that appeal to emotion (argumentum ad passiones) rather than reasoning from principles and shared values.
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The combination of taking more time (as longer form writing encourages) and publishing on a domain associated with your name, your identity, enables & incentivizes more thoughtful writing. More thoughtful writing elevates the reader to a more thoughtful state of mind.

That’s from Tantek Çelik, who was responding to a thoughtful post from Ben Werdmuller. The point is that blogging tends to be slower and more considered than social media is, a point that Derek Powazek made almost exactly a decade ago.