Why blog?

Today I saw an internet ad while checking my office email. It was from TypePad, a blogging/web platform, put out there in Google AdSense. It read: We aren’t gossiping We’re blogging! Anything juicy you want to share? How ridiculous is that? Here is one of the largest blogging platforms out there essentially clamoring to the stereotype — that blogging is just words about nothing, just like gossip is a total waste of time (and unhelpful, hurtful, etc.). Which led me to ponder as I drove home, Why blog? Kari can extol the virtues of what writing in general, and blogging specifically,...