Why do we blog?

Chip Scanlan of the US-based The Poynter Institute, who writes an "advice column" for journalists (titled "Chip on Your Shoulder") for Poynter Online, states why he recently started a blog of his own.

"To paraphrase Kafka," Scanlan writes, "my blog is the ice-axe that broke the frozen sea within me. It has helped me find myself again as a reader and writer. It has set me free."

Check out his reasons for coming up with his blog, "The Mechanic & the Muse," which he stated last January 17.

His reasons are almost the same as mine.