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Blogging: a dance of conversation

Tim Carmody guest-blogging on Kottke:

These are also the elements that help establish bloggers’ identity as readers in conversation with other readers: I have seen something that I feel strongly enough to think and write about, and what would make me happiest is if you look at it, then think and write about it too.

This sums up perfectly why I love link-based blogging so very much, and why I still think it beats that “serialised instruction manual” style of blogging that so many advice sites will tell you is the one true way to success…

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