Many of the blogs I’ve read have a tendency to focus on the hyper-recent, fifteen minutes of fame kind of topics. A more cynical writer might claim that it’s a ploy to optimize those blogs’ search result placement and page hits. I prefer to think it’s a sincere desire to take part in the larger conversation going on in a dispersed community.
Don’t get me wrong–I see a definite a place for that kind of blog. There are a lot of great conversations going on out there, conversations we couldn’t have had a generation ago, conversations enabled by technology.
But there’s also value in another approach, one that doesn’t get quite so caught up in the noise of minute-by-minute blogging. The approach that seems right to me–for me–is one that lets those seemingly interesting ideas hang around a while. Like a poem that you write that you think might be good; if it’s really worth reading, it’ll still be worth reading six months later.
