I think the time may have come for a bloggers' sanctuary, a lifelong learning space where one can engage in blogging in its various aspects, and do so without the concerns of having to be defensive about the errors or how it could be misunderstood.
 
I also don't feel entirely free to blog as I would like, and explore story-telling, personal narratives, and explore alongside others directions I cannot take within a formal learning space. I would like to share what I have been thinking, to explore synergies and develop myself.
 
Some of the blogging is intended to conform to the money code, to be practical, to meet learning goals. That type of blogging is encouraging a pragmatic perspective among learners. It is encouraging their selfishness, pressing them to consume ideas of others and judge others' contributions in terms of how well they meet short-term learning goals, or how much they can be used for personal/professional gain. It requires them to perceive themselves as products, personal brands that compete with others. In that light, the marketplace of ideas uses social capital as the currency of exchange. How one presents their personal brands demands learners to acquire skills to harvest ideas and draw from others in a variety of networked environments. 
 
So many bloggers have stopped blogging, or have shut down commenting, because of the harsh replies from peers or strangers that seek opportunities to criticize your ideas or find fault with your phrasing. These individuals find fault in your words where none was intended. I am not referring to the feedback you can receive from others that ask for clarifications, or just flat-out tell they don't follow your line of thinking - boy, does that happen a lot when i get rambling. That type of feedback helps a lot. Any blog post has to be considered a work in progress, open to revisions and clarifications and elaborations and later iterations. Though it is a given, for me, that blogging is more about sharing fuzzy thoughts and one's tentative thinking process, the blogs are perceived as hard-copy by the literal-minded. No way is a blog to be considered hard-copy, set in stone. It is part of a living blog. It invites us back to the conversation.