Meditations on Blogging Philosophy

"Yesterday's meditation has thrown me into such doubts that I can no longer ignore them, yet I fail to see how they are to be resolved. It is as if I had suddenly fallen into a deep whirlpool; I am so tossed about that I can neither touch bottom with my foot, nor swim up to the top."
(Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy, meditation two)

"Oh, and among the "classic" writers, Hume and most translations I've read of Descartes are way up there, though the blog-like style of the Meditations and Discourse is not something that most students should emulate (if only because they're unlikely to do it well)."
(from the comments thread at The Leiter reports, on writers whom students should try to emulate)

I like the idea of Descartes as an early blogger. The commenter is correct that he writes in that format (those more intelligent than I could probably write a decent parody of him in modern style), but I take it that it's also true that he wanted to publish in a format that was accessible to many people. Perhaps blogging isn't so ultra-new as we like to think.