Diane Penrod’s informative and entertaining article does much to enlighten the non-blogger regarding the fascination with this technological mode of self-expression. One wonders, however, if blogging has more to do with a disconnected society heading for a psychological breakdown than it does with writing. If it is true, as Penrod says, that bloggers write “because they want to be recognized, to have their stories heard in a complex world that really doesn’t seem to listen,” my question is, why not?
