Why I blog

Recently I had read an article by the title of "Why I Blog" by Andrew Sullivan. I found the article quite interesting. The concept of blogging being a different form of writing intrigued me. I had always thought that blogging must be a lot like personal story telling with many editors correcting what the original author said. Sullivan quickly proves why that this form of thinking is incorrect for blogging. Blogging is really more like a diary. Very little editing goes into a blog and once the blog is posted. This makes blogging one of the most raw forms of writing. All of the emotions and thoughts are quickly organized as he is writing, causing the most private, publicly exposed type of diary known to man. Blogs are more readily available than most books it seems. You would have to go to the store, library or a friend's house to find the diary of a famous person, like Anne Frank for example, but all you have to do is get on your computer and you can access any blogger's diary.
Never before has the human population seen any type of written word that can be reached by so many, so quickly. Sullivan says that this instantaneous publishing is something that every writer has ever dreamed of. What writer wouldn't? Having your work out in the public, your words heard, your knowledge passed on all in the click of a mouse is what every writer could every dream of. All of that is what a writer tries to accomplish through his work. If they weren't trying to do that then why write?
The deadline for any blogger comes quick as well. Sullivan says that the next dead line is right now for a blogger. Now is when the next blog will be due and the next one will be due the minute you are done with that blog. If a blogger does not blog on a regular basis then the blog will not attract very many readers. Of course how many times the writer will blog is all up to the reader. The writer may still attract enough readers by doing a blog a week, but other bloggers will need to blog once a day to obtain readers. The writer must try to cater to his readers when it comes to attracting and keeping readers.
Of course this all comes with the consequence of also having an instantaneous response. These response, as Sullivan says, can very cruel. The readers can criticize any thing and every thing a blogger writes about. That is the scary part of blogging. In a rage an author can write something he later regrets or something that could get him in trouble. He could be picked apart piece by piece by his readers. This makes one wonder why would someone blog? Why would they put up with the constant pressure to do well and obtain readers? It must be the thrill of knowing someone out there finds your personal diary interesting.