Blogging's dual nature

Frank Catalano responds to critics of his decision to stop updating one of his blogs, which he attributed to "two dirty little secrets of blogging."

He says that the critics prompted him to think more about the nature of this beast called blogging: "Blogging isn't just one thing. It's at least two very different things, with very different motivators and goals." One is blogging-as-journalism, the other blogging-as-conversation. A useful distinction to draw.