Grobstein's blogs

"When I was in high school, I edited the school newspaper and wrote a biweekly column for it. In the inaugural column, I said something like I can't guarantee anyone that what I write will be interesting or useful to any particular reader. What I can and will guarantee is that I will write only about things that have proven interesting to me and that I think might prove interesting to others, and be as clear as I can about both why they are interesting to me and might be to others. That's the spirit intended here, with the addition of active exchange. Its not just what I think at any given time, but what I think reflected on to the point where I become convinced it is worth sharing, and so am interested in what others think in relation to it.  Maybe its a blog, maybe its an invitation to exchange .... maybe its something else? Whichever, it is what Serendip has meant to me from its inception, long before "blogging" came into existence."

This was the passage from Grobstein's blogs that struck me most.  All in all, I thought that Grobstein provided a balanced view of blogging in each of his blogs, and this passage exemplifies that balanced view very well.  Grobstein, it seems, self-edits wisely-not to the point where his self-editing is done to a fault, but also not so little that he says whatever comes into his mind and may regret what he says in the future.  Grobstein's observations on blogging (and writing in general, which he discusses in the above passage) are very astute and worth reading, and I think they're important.