Blogging through history


My son, the one who aspires to be a history professor, sent me a link to an article entitled Blogging in the Early Republic . No explanation else. It's an interesting article, comparing the pamphleteers of our early history with the bloggers of today.

Still, I couldn't help wondering precisely what message he was sending along with the unexplained link. Was he urging me to continue with my blogging career, implicitly saying that he is willing to live with the embarrassment, given that not that many people know about this blog, or his relationship to its author? Or, was he suggesting that I might bear a passing resemblance to a pamphleteer named Henry Clarke Wright, about whom one of his friends remarked that he spent, "the greater part of the day writing in his room. I suppose he thinks he is shaking the world, but I can perceive very little of the motion so far".

If so, he is quite wrong. Like Wright I do write to "let off rants of indignation", but I am not at all deluded enough to believe that I am shaking the world. I prefer to think of it more like bashing my head against a wall. I do no harm to the wall and it feels so good when I stop.

[This post edited to correct faulty link. Sorry about that]
Posted: Wednesday - January 24, 2007 at 08:23 PM          

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