Blogging Skeptic Asks Why Read Blogs?

Posted on June 25, 2005

Author and blogging skeptic Bob Bly has a question for blog readers. Bly wants to know Why do you visit, read, and leave posts on blogs? Bly has signed a contract with a major publisher to write a book titled My Year in the Blogosphere: Confessions of a Blogging Skeptic.

My question has to do with why you visit, read, and leave posts on blogs (like this one).
There are so many other sources of information available on the topics you are interested in: Web sites, articles, books.
Most of these sources are (in my opinion) better written, better researched, more authoritative, and more thought out than blogs. Do you agree?
So why not just read books, periodicals, and Web sites? Why do you read blogs ... and bother writing posts on them?

He already has 28 responses to his question. Many say that they do read books and websites as well. Others say that they like the interactive nature of blogging and being part of the conversation.