On Blogging and Comments

I really like blogging, which is probably why I gave it up 5 years ago to work on my dissertation. The virtue of blogging is that I can write on ideas without feeling they need be finished. It is helping me to organization my thoughts in more bite size chunks. On the other hand, what if my posting ideas here leads me not being able to publish an article, or to someone taking ideas? That's a possible downside. I'm hoping for some comments to get some feedback (they should work now). But even if no one is reading, at least it will be good for me to post thoughts (I hope!)