The Blog, to me, is a different genre (though not an all-together new one). It poses its own fascinating artistic problems and questions, all of which amount to one issue: how to fill it. Magazines and newspapers are much the same.
In both blogs and papers, the filling takes place on multiple levels: from color and layout design to text and images. Putting the ink on the paper, however, is only one dimension of the filling, and perhaps the easiest. When I publish this, my blog will be full - for the time being. Yet, if I never post again, years from now a visitor will see the same essay and know the blog is empty. Blogs and papers can never be full in this sense, and thus need constant feeding. The longer you wait before publishing again, the greater the emptiness.
There is another sense in which blogs and papers need filling: subject matter. Of all the ways to fill a journal, subject matter is the most amorphous, and, to me, the most interesting. You can fill a blog or paper with one subject matter simply by zooming in or elaborating on the subject. You can fill the same blog or paper with many subjects by dwelling briefly on each. A good measure of how well a publishing operation is organized is the extent to which the publication can touch on a variety of subjects without loosing depth.
Yet, even a publication as highly organized as the Sunday New York Times, whose subjects range from politics to art to business, is still only a paper about "what's happening," and a very narrow thing at that. It is easy for a thought, event, or problem to be outside the bounds of what has been, or will ever be, written in the Sunday Times.
This remarkably obvious fact got me thinking: what is the broadest conceivable subject that a single author can pursue? The answer is "what he or she likes or wants". Creativemeditations.blogspot.com is chiefly an experiment: what does "I write what I like" look like? To the best of my knowledge, "I write what I like" looks like a blog. More than this I cannot say, for "what I like" today may not be "what I like" tomorrow.
