Responsibility

With the blog comes responsibility. To update. All the time. It's hanging over your head constantly. Not only because we're being graded. That's almost immaterial at this point. But because of the mantle of "blogger." I've taken it on. I'm wearing it. At least for now. And while I do, I feel it would be disrespectful of its inherent nature to not uphold its demands.

Etymologically, the root of the word comes from the Latin respondere (courtesy of the Wiktionary—part of the Wikimedia Galactic Realm that we've been studying). This births the English respond, a basic feature of the blog medium. Not only do we respond to the world, as the primary generator of our blogs. But we allow responses from readers. We must then respond to those responses. It is a never-ending cycle of responsibility.