Putting It All Together

Blogging is becoming more and more widespread and sometimes becomes an obsessions for some.

It is another level and form of communication.

Blogs are compositions that we can create with an awareness of a community but can create in the privacy of our own laptops, whereever we might be. But the community we are writing for may or may not necessarily be the same as the one we live in. It is not like a local newspaper. Although, blogs can report on local events and in a periodic style. But the writer of a blog, even a periodic blog (which may not be published regularly), may not be writing for the community in which the blogger resides in. They are writing, instead for an online audience, that may be only read by a select few (especially if the blog exists on the tailend, the lesser known blogs (not mainstream), of the blogosphere).

The smaller our audience is, the more freedom we feel to express our thoughts and beliefs. And the converse, the larger our audience is, the more we feel constrained in what we can write.

But could this be true of other paperleaf periodicals? Possibly. But contributing writers probably keep in mind that their readers will be local readers, the community that the periodical is featured/produced for.