Blogs are an opensource marketplace of ideas, as per Cluetrain.
Wherever I go physically, there are hidden biases that prevent the richness of diversity coming through; diversity in culture, in gender, in age, in background, whatever; diversity that enriches and improves what I experience and learn.
I can prevent these biases from existing in cyberspace. But to do this I must take active steps.
SO I will work hard to read the blogs of people whose ideas I would otherwise not come across.