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When I started putting this

When I started putting this thing together, I wondered why anybody would care what I think. I finally decided that I don't care whether anybody cares or not; this thing is for me. George Orwell, on the other hand, was blogging for a newspaper back in World War II, though of course it wasn't called that. But apparently "George Orwell's wartime columns have much in common with today's blogs: They were often trivial and idiosyncratic, but bore within them the seeds of something greater," according to Eric Weinberger at Salon.com, in Homage to Blogalonia.

Weinberger asks the question: Do we really care about the author's rose-buying adventures, even if the author is George Orwell?

My personal feeling is that an interesting person who writes well will usually come up with something that's worth reading, at least some of the time. The best writers touch on the human spirit whether they're blasting their current political target or waxing poetic about their cat. That's why it's more than half a century since Orwell stopped writing his column, "As I Please," and we're even bothering to ask the question.