Diz-me porque blogas

O que é que levas as pessoas a blogar? O número de blogues aumenta diariamente e o colunista Frank Ahrens, do Washington Post, quis saber o motivo por detrás de tantos posts.

O artigo
Bloggers on the Reasons Behind Their Daily Words

By Frank Ahrens
Sunday, March 5, 2006; Page F07

Last week, I asked: "Why do you blog?"
Blogs, short for "Web logs," have boomed in popularity over the past decade as folks have become more comfortable living online. They are created by individuals, companies, advocacy groups and so forth, and take the form of personal journals, journalism, jokes, jeremiads and just plain crazy talk.
As this column focuses on the intersection of Web content and culture, and what that says about us, I am less interested in how many people blog or who they are, demographically. Instead, I want to know why they blog. What drives them to live out loud on the Web? I had heard the standard blah-de-blah about "community" and "self-expression," but I was hoping that bloggers, who spend a lot of time and bytes thinking and writing about themselves, could lay some real introspection on me.

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A citação

"Everyone in America thinks that they can write an interesting book, open a great restaurant, or that their life would make an intriguing reality TV show. A personal blog is just the hot new thing along that line of thinking. It gives people the opportunity to live out the fantasy that they are special, without actually having to put in too much effort."

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