Hidden uses of blogging?

[Bob]

This from a piece entitled We all need space to be a crashing bore by Gaby Hinsliff in today's Observer:

"Having spent the last few months reading hundreds of entries for the Orwell prize for political blogging, it has been my genuine pleasure as a judge to stumble across some truly terrific, original, sharp writing. But to be brutally honest, it's also meant encountering one or two posts which were almost certainly only ever lovingly reread by their authors. It was these achingly detailed treatises on obscure factions in 19th-century leftwing thought, however, that somehow moved me the most, not least because they have probably saved countless marriages. All those spouses, valiantly suppressing yawns through decades of late-night homilies about the evolution of neo-anarchism, until the blissful day the web was invented and they could finally say: 'How clever, darling. Why don't you type it all up for posterity?' and put The Archers back on."

(Nothing personal, obviously. )