thoughts on blogging part 1

I crashed out this afternoon as I'm still recovering from the flu and my SO snuck onto Gaius, my computer because his machine has just been taken in for repairs (oh teh horr-0R). When I got back I found this on my rough draft of our final writeup:

Reflections on blogging and the difference between web and paper journals.

Immediacy both of updating and availability
No Editor
Personal accountability via site and email
The general perception that it is a personal view point rather than a purely factual medium (like tv or newspapers which are blindly trusted)
Elitist nature in than they must be popularised by their connection to other journals which the common laymen does not seem to have the tools to monitor

The majority of people read papers only when they aren’t doing anything else(as time fillers) eg on bus, train, on their lunch or the toilet. They buy them almost as an unconscious act where as people have to specifically look up a number of different Journals (as 1 person can not write the same amount of articles per day as a crew of people) nor can 1 man as a general rule put such a variety of info in them.
Newspapers are lazy

What amuses me is that my SO is neither a blogger (I'm finally convincing him to get an LJ so he can stay in the loop with his friends, and spy on me, with the promise of a Constantine layout) nor does he read them and yet he actually raised a couple of points that I hadn't considered and managed to cover a lot of stuff that has come up in class and things. I am *so* proud of him!