I have a wholly hetero man-crush on Jeff Veen and the work he has done, but just as only well-published authors and writing teachers being paid for their labors can be forgiven for confusing writing and publication with the whole “writing for oneself” cliche, I suppose the bloggerati should be forgiven for this kind of “I’m OK, You’re OK” rhetoric:

It took my friend Mike over at Mule Design to point out the obvious: blogging is punk rock. Anyone can do it. And should. Regardless of AdSense clicks, reputation management, or audience size. It’s about participation, not scale. If your audience is 20 people, but you connect with 100 percent of them … well, I’d say that’s pretty successful.