A friend gave me a bunch of old New York magazines and while reading them I came across two interesting articles. The first was 15 pages long about difficulties in the I. C. U. and how many fatalities could be prevented by doctors keeping a simple check list but they won't. With my open heart surgery around the corner this wasn't really the best article for me to read at this time!! LOL

There was also an article about people who keep diaries by Louis Menand and the three different types--he asks, "Why do a few people keep diaries, when diary keeping is, for many, too much." Since in many ways keeping a diary and blogging are very similar I thought I would quote him on the 3 different types, the three different theories he has regarding this subject.

For the long and very informative article (especially regarding famous people who write diaries/blogs) it is called "Woke Up This Morning" and is in the Dec.10, 2007 issue of the New Yorker--along with the I. C. U. article--you read the latter you amy never want to go to a hospital again!!!

1) The ego theory holds that maintaining a diary demands a level of vanity and self importance that is simply to great for most people to sustain for long periods of time.

2) The id theory, on the other hand,states that people use diaries to record wishes and desires that they need to keep secret and to list failures and disappointments that they cannot admit publicly have given them pain. (In a blog they are hiding behind a false name.)

3) The super ego theory is the theory that diaries (blogs) are really written for the eyes of others. They are exercises in self justification.

He, also, goes on to explain why they write, and don't write, in their blogs and why.

Which kind of blogger are you?? I, easily, see myself as a combination of 1 and 3.