Wow! What a Question!
I’m back on the grid now, more or less, sitting in the Maine maritime Academy in Castine, Maine — a beautiful little town next tome some beautiful water, dotted with beautiful sail boats, some made of fiberglass and some made of polished wood.
I checked in at registration around 3:00 and was immediately accosted by six — seemed like more — ed tech mentors asking about conferences that they should attend. I listed just a few of my favorites and then just got them talking about what they looked for in a conference. I don’t mean to imply that this was an unpleasant experience. It’s just that after a day-long vacation with my wife, well I just wasn’t prepared 
Then, one young woman asked (and I paraphrase quite poorly), “When you blog all this material, what’s left to teach? What can you offer in person that’s better? Again, I was still too addled by the drive up from bangor and an entirely disturbing book (fiction) on my ipod to give an adequate or even coherent answer. I remember during my early days of blogging, that I was fairly guarded about what I would share, fearful of giving away the services that are, in part, my bread and butter. But that concern drifted away over the months — to where the revenue aspects of what I do no longer filter what I blog about.
Still, I suspect that the question was even deeper than that, and I think that it could raise some interesting discussion. So what do you think?
“What does blogging replace?”
“Does it replace anything that was already there?”
Photo CitationStinson, Peter. “Blogging.” Tidewater Muse’s Photostream. 20 Jun 2007. 1 Aug 2007