On Wirearchy

I think Jon has summed up why blogging is important.
I think is it a fair question, maybe cynical, to ask, “Well they said
that about the whole web thing didn't they?” Yeah, they
did. The problem was, and still is, that building websites
stopped being easy. When I started building sites, when you had
to hand code and tables hadn't been invented yet, you could just create
a fast and dirty site and move on. Granted you needed some kind
of FTP program to get the files up to your site, but all you needed was
Notepad or Simpletext to get the job done.

And the web got a little more sofisticated, so did the tools.
Cool. Designing got easier and more people could do it.
Websites were simple and templates were fine. Then we started to
get fancy, Javascript, DHTML, and so on. End result it got harder
and harder for people to make nice looking websites.

Then came blogs. Simple websites, simply done. Most folks
use a template supplied with whatever package or service they
use. You might tweak the links and add a personal touch or two,
but that's about it. Posting is fast and easy. Mostly
through a web-based tool of some sort. You have to worry about
coding for the most part. Just write, post, and be done.
You could be walking down the street, see something (amazing, shocking,
funny, whatever), jump to an Internet Cafe, post to your blog and the
world can know.

Simplicity.