Paradox and avenues for blogging

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Kevin O'Keefe takes a chiding tone with his blog - Real Lawyers Have Blogs.  In Are American Lawyers Taking Blogging for Granted?, for example, he calls upon the lack of freedom of speech in such countries as Ethiopia and Russia to goad his fellow lawyers in the US to exercise that freedom via blogging.

The paradox of that freedom, to me, is that choosing not to speak, or to blog, is exercising that very freedom, which is actually that of choice.  While millions and millions blog, on all sorts of subjects and for all sorts of reasons, blogging simply isn't for everyone.

Another thing about blogging is that it isn't just one form or format.  O'Keefe's blog, or my blog here, is just an example.  But social media can be, and often is, a forum for blogging.  If we define blogging as voicing our point of view, then we clearly have multiple platforms or avenues at our disposal to do so.  

They say, for instance, that Twitter is a micro-blogging site.  140 characters are all you're allowed per tweet.  For those busy or reluctant colleagues of O'Keefe, tweeting may be the perfect remedy:  It's easy as pie and takes a matter of seconds.