[mirror and veil?]

The key to blogging, for Serfaty, is that bloggers can write an open-ended multi-linear self which can then be read by others. Additionally, online diary writers (her words) can receive imput from readers. Hrm. I'm not quite sure if this is THE crucial reason blogs are read and commented upon. I'm thinking of Sven Birkerts comments on Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own":

Reading the prose, I confronted a paradox that pulled meupright in my chair. Woolf's idea are, in fact, few and fairly obvious - at least from our historical vantage. Yet the thinking, the presence of animate thought on the page, is striking (The Gutenberg Elegies, 11).

Bloggers and readers of blogs can bear witness to a immidiacy of thought - the thinking process almost as it happens. Of course there are those out there who might write drafts; but blogger etiquette is all about accepting what's on the screen as a first draft - as something which evolved in real time. Blogs which I find interesting and then follow loyally, are those which demonstrate the blogger's engagement with thought. Her or his moulding of it, reporting of it, and finally reflecting upon it. Blogging is not necessarily about coming to any conclusion but seeing significance in the little things...in thinking about them and demonstrating that process.