For me, I like what blogging makes me do, or rather the effects of blogging. For a typical post I generate an idea (usually I have lists of ideas hidden on scrap paper in various notebooks, to be honest, but they have been generated at some prior point), I conduct "research sessions" aka "quality time with google", I'd say on average spending 2 hours doing so, then I cull through the best sources. Finally after that I get down to the writing! Then after a few days I edit the post at least once, but I edit more for style than to cut word count. Finally it all goes up on Wordpress...And then I have to socialize it against three or four different kinds of media! It's work.

But moreover, the process of finding, reading, revisiting, and reiterating information in my own words is really like - an ideal learning process for me, I think. When you can explain a concept to someone else, that's when you've truly learned it. I think that's what I find rewarding about my blog posts, I know that each one represents a culmination of at least a few hours' work and its existence is a digital representation of my continued self-education.

Sometimes I write up like, two or three drafts in a weekend and sit on them, releasing one a week. Othertimes I get behind and it takes me two weeks to post again :)

As for blogging vs. Twitter, I love Twitter but I just use it completely differently. Twitter is for out-of-context quips, mostly. (I'm good at quips, I need a place for them to go!) I've heard Twitter called "micro-blogging" and that just seems very foreign to me.

Edit: Anyway, clearly I love to ramble on and on about Kenning, the blog, and my process. Sorry for all of that haha. I guess it's my enthusiasm coming through.