When you develop a new theory suddenly the world is full of evidence to support it. (There's probably a name for that.) So with my whole Blogging Again is the new Not Blogging As Much As I Did theory the odd quote has stuck out it's leg for me to trip over. Such as this one, from an interview with Clive James in July's Word magazine.
"...one of the things the web can do is register the complete mentality of someone who's lived quite a while. It really can. And young people can't do that."
Mr James is certainly doing that, his site is becoming an enormous archive of his various activities and I think that quote gets at one of the things I'm realising about the power of blogging, it's not just the immediate hit of communication, it's the slow accumulation of ideas and expression. The archives, the permanent links, the searchability. That's why there's value in ploughing on. Not just for now, but for later.
I know that's probably obvious. But anyway.
