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Your Brain on Blog

Andrew Sullivan and Marc Ambinder reflect on the narcotic appeal of blogging and the occupational hazards of thinking quickly.

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Why I Blog

 November 2008

By Andrew Sullivan

"You end up writing about yourself, since you are a relatively fixed point in this constant interaction with the ideas and facts of the exterior world. And in this sense, the historic form closest to blogs is the diary. ... But a blog, unlike a diary, is instantly public. It transforms this most personal and retrospective of forms into a painfully public and immediate one."

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