This is your brain on blogs

This incredible upsurge in [blogging] activity has caused us to wonder: What effect is all this blogging having on the brains of bloggers?

Why ask this question? The primary reason can be found in one of the central tenets of modern neuroscience: "The neurons that fire together, wire together." What this basically means is that our mental activities actually cause changes in the structures of our brains--not only what we think, but how we think as well. Given such activity-directed change, it always makes sense to ask whenever large numbers of people start using their brains in new and different ways, what effects these new activities are likely to have on brain structure and function. Blogging, which only seems to be accelerating in popularity, is a prime candidate for such investigation. After surveying the general range of materials that the blogosphere has to offer, we believe the following basic largely supportive conclusions are warranted ...

Read this post for the conclusions. If you don't already have a blog, this post will spur you into starting one right away.

In case you didn't notice, it's a post from March 2005. I just discovered it through Gaddeswarup's blog which, in turn, was discovered through technology-assisted self-search ...