Movie critic Roger Ebert has a blog, and it’s a pretty good one.
It’s well-written, of course, and Roger was an early adapter of a lot of computer communication technology (anybody else have fond memories of Cinemania?), so he’s clearly comfortable with the medium. I suppose he could link to other bloggers a bit more, but for the most part he’s joined the conversation. Even though he gets hundreds of comments on each post, he reads them all and writes some answers.
There’s a reason for that. Due to his medical problems, Roger has lost the ability to speak.
He can still think, though, and he can still write. So everyone he talks to these days, he talks to by writing. This is something you really should read in Roger’s own words. Check out his amazing explanation of what life is like when speach is stolen but writing remains.
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