Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but I think there is still value to having a place on the net that you can call your own, free of any advertisements, draconian TOS, and the like.

And, on the pragmatic site, having your own site with a decent number of inbound links will ensure that it comes up first when someone Googles for your name. That can be important too. :-)

I love twitter but I don’t think of it as a replacement for a blog — they’re fundamentally different things. My thoughts on twitter are the subject of a pending blog post at some point, actually.

I also think in prose, so blogging’s a pretty natural thing for me.