Daily Meh is an edited stream of consciousness, by Simen.

Why I Blog

Andrew Sullivan’s love letter to blogging. (Fimoculous says this “will probably be the most quoted thing on the internet for the next few days.”)

He offers some new ideas: the blogging form is more accountable than newspapers, “because there is nothing more conducive to professionalism than being publicly humiliated for sloppiness”. But “the triumphalist notion that blogging should somehow replace traditional writing is as foolish as it is pernicious.” More worrying is the notion that truth on a blog is somehow more relative than a truth in print. Hence, let others “pivot you toward relative truth.” But at least bloggers are in good company, since, according to Sullivan, so did Michel de Montaigne, the father of the essay.