Andrew Sullivan on one of blogging's great appeals:
It just means that when you live in the world—a temporary, provisional world—you’re a temporary, provisional being. I think the blog, in its defense —my blog at least —is very candid about that. It doesn’t pretend any great deal of authority.
Learning to have an idea, write it down at that moment, and let it go has been one of blogging's most liberating side effects for me. In earlier days, I would only permit my name to adorn painstakingly crafted prose; in other words, I wrote nothing that anybody else ever read. What a liberating treat to be able to write without every single thing needing to be something for the ages!
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