Blogging - another opinion

Figured I'd weigh in on the blogging thing in my first post here at WOYP. I think both Jeff and Man Ching have good points. As a reader, I like the combination of editorial-style blogs and quick links to other postings. Blogs that contain all of either just don't hold my interest for very long. I enjoy nice, well thought-out opinion pieces provided that they don't drone on too long or use esoteric language that conveys to me a sense that the writer is trying to impress the reader with the new words he/she learned that week. I also like being able to look at a brief description of a link and then decide whether I want to pursue it further.

I have a personal blog that I post to whenever the urge comes. I sometimes include links, sometimes not. My own sense of blogging is purely from the perspective of what a reader might think about what I have written. I am not a writer, just a rather opinionated reader who prefers to respond to things rather than create them.

So my sense is that if a blog post causes the reader to think, it's a good thing. And it doesn't matter whether it was something the poster wrote or something linked.