I haven't secured mine yet

I think the thing that pushes people who blog is to find or maintain a voice.

I want to say that it's a reaction to modern life, that we've pushed ourselves beyond the domain that our brains our capable of handling and a whole bunch of other pseudo-Freudian ramblings about creating an artificial ego to replace our actual lack of one...that having that voice is the key to survival.

A fun path to dance down. Also a load of garbage. Freud inherited all of Nietzsche's vices and none of his virtues.

I think it comes out of our natural propensity towards storytelling manifesting itself wherever it finds itself welcome. For many, it's a format where they can tell shorter stories and have them be naturally in context.

After you read a couple editions of Markets in Everything, you've created a construct in which it is easy and satisfying to hear a story.

It doesn't take much to get familiar with a blogger's voice. And once you do, each post you read has a lot more information than an anonymous news article of similar length and content.

I think Twitter will become more of the same. I don't think Facebook or any social networking sites will. Blogging/Tweeting is performance art in which your audience self-selects. Facebook, etc. is paired selection. I wonder if there's any meaningful way to do social networking in which you self-select yourself into your social network but don't affect others' networks inherently. Maybe that's Google's current aim.

I don't think most of above is a load of garbage.