Through the course of my "Blogging Around", I saw Thomas's very precise, succinct comment on his blogging experience. He stated roughly that although the concept has it's pitfalls, the benefits of casual free-flow of thought writing are very nice. I responded as such:

"Thomas, I thought you had some great thoughts on here. Whereas I normally take a long time to express a point when writing it, you got the jist of my feelings regarding blogging in some very few sentences. I too feel like the informality (though, yes, the reigns do need to be kept somewhat tight) makes for easy writing and some real thinking that isn't TOO forced. Of course we're going to have some days where we just don't know what to write about a certain assignment, but at least this way we don't have to sound like calculating, expository geniuses while trying to pretend as though we do know what to say.

And by the way, great cartoon. Poor cheerleaders."

Secondly, I responded to Jon's blog, which talked about free-thinking, how he's come to understand his pattern of thinking, and his concerns over the overall "restricted" assignment process of blogging in Mr. Allen's class.

"Hey Jon, love the post. I found it interesting how, right off the bat, you said you felt blogging taught you something about your own thinking. The reason I found that...interesting, I suppose, is because I've never looked at it that way. You've now kind of inspired me to go back and really try to rember WHY I think the way I currently do vs. merely know how I currently think.
Regarding your thoughts on how it's "free flow thinking", I totally agree.
About that last bit though? I recognize that sometimes the prompts and forced, and how that's, well...inconvenient, but many people seem to wish that they hadn't had to do them in the first place. And when thinking about that, I have to disagree a little bit, because school isn't always going to suit our thoughts or needs, nor should it. I think these were made to make us think and, if I may...uncomfortable in our thinking, so that we really examine things to come to a truly thought-out answer. If we had it our way and could just write about anything in english class, I doubt there'd be any challenge to the process and I suspect there'd be little gain from it.
No, the gain that Mr. Allen hoped for may not have been as big as he wished (and that's just a guess). Still, I think it was worth the try. And overall, I think you have a great flow and natural vibe to your blogs, as you do whern you speak. I hope you keep yours up and running :]"