Dear Blog:
I am so sorry I've been neglecting you lately. I've thought about you often, I swear I have, but I have no excuse for withholding the attention you need or deserve. I hope that we can work through this, because I'm not ready to give up on this relationship. Are you? I assure you I will do my best to devote more time and energy to you in the future.
Lots of love,
Me
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Dear Blogging:
You've been good to me these past two years. You've provided me with information and entertainment during those quiet times at work and at home. You've helped me reconnect with old friends and follow their lives to a greater degree than if I had maintained communication through more "traditional means." Furthermore, you've actually made me smarter. Sure, I'm not a better writer than I was before I discovered you (that is my fault alone), but I'm more informed about current events and some basic ideas than I was before I met you. I was too busy playing around with art and video production to learn about things like habeas corpus and straw men, but thanks to you, I know about these things and much, much more. Sometimes I feel that using you for news and information is akin to learning about the world by reading only the editorials in the paper, and maybe I'd be smarter still if I only read the paper cover-to-cover. Yet many bloggers who are far more intelligent and educated than I am support their arguments with references, they point to articles, and they understand the necessity of traditional journalism. Furthermore, their discussions are more frank and honest than the paper's editorial section; unlike the editorials, the bloggers can engage the readers and the readers can participate in the discussion. When I read a blog, I feel like I'm listening to a heated conversation in a university coffee shop, but it's a conversation I can access at any time, in many different locations. I wonder what Habermas would think? Blogging, you are a blessing. However, you are also responsible for many of my bad moods. You've helped pull some wool from my eyes, and we all know that ignorance is bliss. Sometimes when I click on you, you show me things I don't want to see, things that make me sad or angry. Sometimes I have to ignore you to maintain a cheerful disposition, or sanity. But I will be hard-pressed to give you up. Even if I stopped writing, I don't know if I could stop reading. Blogging, you are an addiction. A vice and a virtue.
Just thought you should know.
Lots of love,
Me
I am so sorry I've been neglecting you lately. I've thought about you often, I swear I have, but I have no excuse for withholding the attention you need or deserve. I hope that we can work through this, because I'm not ready to give up on this relationship. Are you? I assure you I will do my best to devote more time and energy to you in the future.
Lots of love,
Me
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Dear Blogging:
You've been good to me these past two years. You've provided me with information and entertainment during those quiet times at work and at home. You've helped me reconnect with old friends and follow their lives to a greater degree than if I had maintained communication through more "traditional means." Furthermore, you've actually made me smarter. Sure, I'm not a better writer than I was before I discovered you (that is my fault alone), but I'm more informed about current events and some basic ideas than I was before I met you. I was too busy playing around with art and video production to learn about things like habeas corpus and straw men, but thanks to you, I know about these things and much, much more. Sometimes I feel that using you for news and information is akin to learning about the world by reading only the editorials in the paper, and maybe I'd be smarter still if I only read the paper cover-to-cover. Yet many bloggers who are far more intelligent and educated than I am support their arguments with references, they point to articles, and they understand the necessity of traditional journalism. Furthermore, their discussions are more frank and honest than the paper's editorial section; unlike the editorials, the bloggers can engage the readers and the readers can participate in the discussion. When I read a blog, I feel like I'm listening to a heated conversation in a university coffee shop, but it's a conversation I can access at any time, in many different locations. I wonder what Habermas would think? Blogging, you are a blessing. However, you are also responsible for many of my bad moods. You've helped pull some wool from my eyes, and we all know that ignorance is bliss. Sometimes when I click on you, you show me things I don't want to see, things that make me sad or angry. Sometimes I have to ignore you to maintain a cheerful disposition, or sanity. But I will be hard-pressed to give you up. Even if I stopped writing, I don't know if I could stop reading. Blogging, you are an addiction. A vice and a virtue.
Just thought you should know.
Lots of love,
Me
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