Phenomenology of Blogging
Julian Sanchez posts, cryptically, “This animal rights discussion is reminding me how little worth saying can be said in blog posts. I think I’m done with this medium for a while.”
I’m not sure what brought that on, really, since pretty much anything one can say anywhere can be said in a blog post. It’s not like Twitter, which comes with limitations on the number of characters one can type. One could, if one wished, paste a doctoral dissertation into WordPress (although I’d recommend parenthetical citation; footnoting is a bear in most blog software).
Perhaps he means that there’s only so much that one can convey to a non-expert audience on a deeply philosophical argument without coming across as pedantic to or simply going over the head of most lay readers. But that’s true of any medium.
Sounds to me like Julian, and Mark Cuban, have been knocking back a few together.