Quote of the Day (Andrew Sullivan, on Blogging)

“Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. Blogging is writing out loud.”—Andrew Sullivan, “Why I Blog,” The Atlantic, November 2008

(I don’t always agree with everything Andrew Sullivan writes—in fact, I disagree with quite a lot of it—but few writers have made such an impact in the blogosphere, and there is no doubt that on almost any given moment of any day, he leaves a bit of himself out there. His essay in a bastion of the old print medium, The Atlantic—long one of my favorite magazines, incidentally—is a revealing look at the exhilaration and perils of blogging, and of what he sees as a new golden era of journalism that it will usher in.

Over the next few days, I will be doing a little bit of experimentation myself, with contemporaneous travel writing. We’ll see how this goes!)