Sullivan's "Why I Blog"

Sullivan blogs for the freedom of writing it provides. He does not have to look to anyone for approval for the blogs he posts and he can post a piece about something he hasn’t checked all his sources on because there is no authority watching over his articles. He can post anything he finds interesting immediately so that his readers can see exactly what he is doing at any point in the day. His blogs have no deadlines, but if he does not post stuff regularly his readers will become bored with his blog and may chose to no longer follow his blog. He also says he can make his posts more interesting by providing links to his sources or articles he is talking about. This allows the reader to not just blindly trust the author, who commented on the article about its contents, but to read the same thing the author did in its original form and then look at author’s comments about the article. Sullivan’s blogs are not limited by any constraints either, they do not need to be any specific length or on any specific topic, both of those are under his control, and not a larger company like he previously worked for. He blogs for the freedom of writing it provides and the ability to see first hand his readers’ response to his blogs neither of which he had while working for a newspaper or magazine.