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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2310281" data-attributes="member: 151">You seem to be discounting the idea that some of the blogs people read are FROM their friends. I joined LiveJournal to keep in touch with many of my now geographically distant friends. One of my friends regularly posts to blogger, which is how I keep track of his comings and goings.Blogs are different things to different folks. My Livejournal is for friends near and far to keep up with me, find out what I'm listening to, reading, working on or just shot the breeze. You might ask: "Well, why not just pick up the phone?" For some friends, that might be valid...but I work 13 hour days and have two kids...time is scarce. Couple that with the fact that most of the folks who's blogs I read or who read mine are in different time zones, and you see the problem. I'm in bed by 10PM most night, since I need to be up and out of the house by 5:30AM....calling someone who keeps similar hours in San Diego is problematic.Other blogs are good news aggregate sites: I get my video game and gadget news from a series of blogs, who collect news stories and share them. I don't have time to seek out the latest information on when Bomberman DS will ship...and thanks to DSRevolution, Joystiq and Kotaku, I don't need to bother. When I wanted E3 coverage, I turned to the blogs. When I want to know about specific topics, I often turn to a blog for a viewpoint and commentary on it.Some blogs are like Erik Mona's, Chris Pramas' or Jackson Publick (of the Venture Brothers fame): part of it is just stuff that happens to them and part of it is related to content they're working on that has some relevancy to a shared interest. Hearing Erik's write-up about the Ethergaunts, or his link to the 'transformation' database, for example. Finding out the details of how work is progressing on Season Two of the Venture Brothers, for another.In some cases, Blogs are just pure entertainment. Reading John Scalzi or Wil Wheaton's blogs, for example, contain both some insight and amusement. They are both professional writers who provide sometime keen insight into their various crafts (and in Wheaton's case, both writing AND acting).I'm not a big fan of political blogs...but some old media folks sure are spooked by 'em.In many ways, I view blogs as the 21st century equivalent of Letters (as in the collected Letters of Mark Twain, frex).  We frequently go back, these days, and review those writings when trying to glean an insight into someone's thought process.  This is no different, IMHO.</blockquote>

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