Terry and [Lili](http://blog.mathemagenic.com/ 2002/10/30.html#a311) have posted thoughts on the value of conversation or speaking out loud. The same topic I had independently thought to blog about tonight (anyone read Synchronicity by Joseph Jaworski).
It makes sense that blogging helps you articulate ideas, explain something or get it right in your head prior to a speech. As humans pretty much everything we do is conversational in some way. Either internal conversations with ourselves or external conversations with others. Blogging is a form of the latter. Although the distinction between the two doesn’t really matter. What’s more important is that the conversation is held or not held.
For instance, many of the ideas I wish to blog about never actually make it to the virtual paper of The Quantum Garden Website. Desire and speed of thought overtake the time available to post. Yet by having a blog to plan a post for I engage myself in a conversation about what to write. That (conversational) action frequently solidifies or expands the original idea. I get the value whether I make it to the keyboard or not.
As I learn more about The Ontology of the Human Observer I learn more about the true nature of conversation. It’s amazing that we take so much for granted in that regard.