Never read this blog before, but nice pointer from RedMonk 2.0 led me to a description of Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder, aka NADD. I’m not a programming nerd, but I probably qualify in most other regards. I heartily agreed with this:
2) Weblogs are designed for those with NADD. The web digested into short little blurbs of information. NADD heaven. My guess would be that the population of regular webloggers is mostly NADD-afflicted. Otherwise, they’d be writing books… not paragraphs… at random times of the day… always.