What Blogging is About

In Authorating, Doc Searls talks about this thing we do.

"The most constructive work we do in blogland isn't 'delivering' the commodity we call 'information,' but rather exercizing the verbs from which the noun information is derived. We inform each other. As human beings, we are what we know, and we know more because we listen to and read and watch sources that enlarge our knowledge. We are therefore literally formed by those processes...We are all authors of each other."

We are what we see, hear, read, and draw, tell, and write. Blogging lets us contribute back to the source of all of us in a way that wasn't available before the technology allowed.

Those who did so before the technological enablers did so because they had the passion to overcome the obstacles. What blogging allows is the nurturing of the passion in a potential and potentially supportive community, along with the discovery of one's voice, and the development of the confidence to identify, develop, and share ourselves in terms of what is important to us.