Blogging changes writing by allowing linking to other blogs and pages on the web. This adds 'depth' and 'legitimacy' to the post. Instead of explaining something to readers, links offers 'in-depth' coverage of a topic commented on. So, the reader has the option of looking at this additional information or simply ignoring it.
Linking allows us the ability to offer readers an easy avenue to finding more information about select issues or topics within a post. Bloggers have the opportunity, unlike 'hard copy' writers, to stay on topic. Bloggers don't have to stop and explain where a quote came from or the explination of a word. Instead bloggers just highlight the quote or word, and turn them into what is called a link. Who thought of this stuff? It's great, a way to make information even more easily accessable. Instant knowledge, kinda like InstantGratification...
Blogging links you to others with the same interests. You can search Blogger to actually find others who like the same things you do. Sometimes you 'connect' with someone and may move to email or 'snail' mail to further the connection.
Links can add depth to a thought by saying, "Here's my idea. Oh, and while I'm at it, here's my frame of reference, and a few bases on which I base my ideas." It's been refered to as a sideways jump/slide, but it seems to be more of an issue of depth. In both a third dimensional sense and a sense of expansion upon an idea.
Taking a two-dimensional "space" like a piece of paper or monitor, and adding the illusion of expanding into the third dimension, and making every thought a an expandable NonLinear experience is a great thing.
TheCollective
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