Blogging - the new letter writing?
Listening to "The Devil in the White City", I'm struck by how much the writer was helped by the near-compulsive letter writing of the era. Most people seemed to write lengthy letters on a near-daily basis, leaving behind them a distinctly personal view of history. People today, though, are too rushed, too busy, for the kind of journaling that historians love.

I know that I am a terrible journaler. I tend to wait till bedtime, and then I'm too tired to make sense of my day, so I bag it. I have a dozen journals, all with only a few pages used. Blogging, though -- it's fairly quick and simple, and, I think, could leave the same kind of snapshot of life that written journals (and letters) used to provide.

Food for thought, anyways...