Blogging is Good for Your Brain

Good news bloggers - you aren't wasting your time with all of this clickin, clacking and readin of blogs.  Blogging is good for your brains.  Actually, I have suspected this - I really think blogging has sharpened my thinking skills.  As I create posts, read posts and interact with commenters I have been stretched intellectually in ways similar to what I experienced in seminary. 

Now, the evidence is starting to come in showing what many of us have already been thinking - that blogging is good for the brain. Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide of Edmonds, WA have some evidence to that effect.

They say "After surveying the general range of materials that the blogosphere has to offer, we believe the following basic largely supportive conclusions are warranted:"

1. Blogs can promote critical and analytical thinking.
2. Blogging can be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking.
3. Blogs promote analogical thinking. 
4. Blogging is a powerful medium for increasing access and exposure to quality information.
5. Blogging combines the best of solitary reflection and social interaction.

You can read the whole article here.

Hat Tip - Rebecca Writes and Bene-Diction - let's hear it for the Canadiens!