Read enough personal blogs and you’ll realize they’re mostly filled with minutia on someone’s daily life. What they ate for breakfast, where they ran errands, what the weather was like, etc. For the most part, there’s not a lot of scholarly analysis of any import.
And while they may seem like a must-miss, San Francisco Chronicle writer Alan Greenblatt says blogs are becoming the 21st-century equivalent of letters from our ancestors, be they your grandmother or the founding fathers. Read those and you’ll learn what they ate for breakfast, where they ran errands and what the weather was like.
Now, you may automatically think e-mail would be the heir apparent to old-fashioned letter writing, but Greenblatt begs to differ:
“Instead, they are simply the needy children of interpersonal communications, demanding instant attention (all those uppercase subject lines, red exclamation marks and “did you get my last e-mail?” conversations), without offering much other than proof of short attention spans.”
An interesting comparison is here.
