{"id":4220,"date":"2003-06-12T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2003-06-12T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2003-06-12T15:23:24","modified_gmt":"2003-06-12T15:23:24","slug":"why-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4220","title":{"rendered":"why blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine saw my May<\/p>\n

23 entry<\/a>, which is about the moral dangers of seeking fame, and asked: "Is<\/p>\n

writing a blog part of an effort to become famous?" I replied (in effect):<\/p>\n

"I have looked deep within and discovered that 75% of my original motivation<\/p>\n

for starting the blog was self-aggrandizement." (At least I’m honest.) But<\/p>\n

I do have other goals, including: <\/p>\n

    \n
  1. To explore the ethics of recording\n

    ideas and experiences in a public way—that is, in a way that’s honest and<\/p>\n

    potentially interesting for other people, and that respects others’ privacy rights<\/p>\n

    and my own duties to the institutions that I work for. Being public in this way<\/p>\n

    is somewhat tricky, and it’s supposed to be a modest experiment in living democratically.<\/li>\n

  2. To\n

    experiment with this new genre ("the blog") by writing unusual kinds<\/p>\n

    of entries. For the most part, I try not to offer statements of personal opinion<\/p>\n

    or simple links to other sites, but instead I like to pose moral or philosophical<\/p>\n

    questions that have arisen in some recent experience.<\/li>\n

  3. To create a notebook\n

    from which I can later borrow for longer, more systematic writing.<\/li>\n

  4. To\n

    have a platform for presenting short comments for a small audience, easily and<\/p>\n

    quickly.<\/li>\n

  5. To present myself to anyone who’s interested. The best description\n

    of who I am (as a professional) is a record of what I’ve been doing. <\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A friend of mine saw my May 23 entry, which is about the moral dangers of seeking fame, and asked: "Is writing a blog part of an effort to become famous?" I replied (in effect): "I have looked deep within and discovered that 75% of my original motivation for starting the blog was self-aggrandizement." (At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}