Jeremy Miller recently posted a general encouragement to blog. I'll add my voice to his and as well as confess that I have avoided posting sometimes out of fear of being stupid. The truth is, I am stupid. But blogging helps me unstupid, so I'm deliberately posting more.
Francis Bacon said:
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,
and writing an exact man.
Participating in the blogosphere covers all three.
Oh, here's some more bacon.