Before you knew it, I was addicted to the blog, checking it multiple times a day and posting more and more, either with comments or my own posts. This blogging element works: it turned a cynic like me into a true believer, and I even started to enjoy reading platonic texts. And the reason for this road to Damascus conversion was that the blog is a 21st century equivalent of what Socrates was doing over two thousand years ago: organic dialectic. The very nature of the course encourages this online, expanding the class outside of the one hour and fifteen minutes classes twice a week. It's impossible to have this sort of conversation without the blog.