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Andrew Sullivan on "Why I Blog"

"Andrew Sullivan, a well-known writer, has been blogging since 2001 and won the 2008 Best Blog award (displayed at his site.) In November, prior to this competition, he published an excellent essay on blogging in the Atlantic Monthly, one that I read at the time and meant discuss. Give it a read. "

http://www.climateaudit.org/

And:
"The lack of finish obviously annoys some observers, who point to my lack of output in the formal journals over the last few years, but, in fairness to me, this lack of output in formal journals has been accompanied by copious output in this forum.

Many readers are looking for answers and I warn such readers that, if they're looking for "answers", they'd better go some place else. My interests are in process and in questions. It seems that "meandering" and "unresolved" posts have some distinguished examples, with Sullivan contrasting the "meandering, questioning, unresolved dialogues" of one famous philosopher with the "definitive, logical treatises" of another. While I make no claim to special authority or accomplishment for anything presented here, Sullivan observes that "meandering, questioning, unresolved dialogues" are a "skeptic’s spirit translated into writing", which is perhaps why I've become comfortable with the form."

Perhaps this post belong on Community rather than Space.
But it seems to me to be relevant to the "space board" in general.

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