Blogs tend to be the way a lot of advice, guidelines etc are disseminated in the software world, so that's the main reason. I don't know of any major forums in

Blogs tend to be the way a lot of advice, guidelines etc are disseminated in the software world, so that's the main reason. I don't know of any major forums in the Clojure world, for example, that everyone is aware of and contributing knowledge to. It seems to blogs, irc, the mailing list, stackoverflow.