Tools for Thinking, Expressing, Communicating Ideas

Humans use many tools for sorting their thoughts, sharing their thoughts, expressing their ideas, communicating, persuading, moving others to action, sharing principles and ideals. They have through history. These tools include:

• the human voice
• a stick and dirt
• rocks laid out to make words
• heiroglyphics and pictographs
• brush and canvas
• pen and paper
• word processor and printer
• website and blog

All are tools for communication. All have had the potential to be a diary, a rant, a slanderous lie, prayer, a poem, a lasting work of humanity.

Investigate the potential of what blogs are becoming.

I have read and written stories on blogs that have moved me so much I have had tears in my eyes. Great writing has not been tied to only certain technologies. To work as if that were so, would be to ignore a powerful tool. It would be like using pencils to write only my name — not any other words.

That would be silly.

A blog is a tool. As with all tools, a blog lives up to the standards and skills of the user.

Liz Strauss