if:book: blogging restructures consciousness?
So, is it just me, or does this bit of text (not all of it, just the scary part) make you want to stop blogging?

“After two and a half years of virtually non-stop blogging, my perception of myself as a distinct individual has dramatically waned. My interior monologue has virtually disappeared. I no longer have aesthetic-based epiphanies, and I almost never concern myself with examining internal passions or emotions anymore. Blogging has not just changed the activities in which I engage–the activities in which I engage in order to be a successful blogger have profoundly altered the way my mind operates and the way I conceptualize my agency in relation to others. In effect, I do not exist in the same way I once existed.”

Don’t think it will make me stop blogging.  And I do agree with what this individual says.  It will change and restructure your thinking process.  But, I don’t really want to give up “my perception of myself as a distinct individual” any more than I want to give up my nose.  Yet, I think it can help us to look back over time.  When I started my first blog, it was purely to keep track of the incoming bits of flotsam and jetsam that was influencing my “self” as it is.  That blog didn’t work.  Not enough time at that point (and Wordpress wasn’t as well developed; didn’t need more tech stuff to take care of on my own time) to do it properly.

I’ll keep this in mind and try to write something on it as time progresses.  The entire article is a good read, but I haven’t the time to discuss it further tonight.