There's a small ticking, far off, but not quite far away. His vision has dissolved to the screen, the single light in his life pouring out a warm languid glow.
His body contorts, wracks and ripples with laughter. He stops. He breathes out a sugared meat breath.
'Lol,' he shakes his head, his chins stop a minute later.
He stares, the ticking tempo increases. It slows down. Shifts unevenly, never quite stopping, but always seeming on the brink of such.
To the tick of his clock, there's a beat at the door.
He sits. He stares. He ticks away.

What's a blog? Why do we have the standards we do for this piece of communication? Should we have such standards?
Language is a human construct. If I tell you that someone is sitting down, it seems pretty straight forward. In your mind, they are most likely sitting with their knees bent at right angles on a chair of a Western height and style. However they may not be;
Details such as "47 degree bend on the left knee, 49 on the right, with the right calf perpendicular to his chin, and his left nostril slightly flared (14% wider than his right nostril (however the right is also 11% larger compared to its usual..."
...although accurate and able to communicate precisely what the author means, hurt.
Down the other end of the spectrum, communicating ideas on Web 2.0, cannot be as simple as "It's better".
Many areas between these two extremes can communicate bloggable ideas effectively, but most bloggers will write in a single style and voice, just as expression for a director may be limited to one genre of film they excel at, and therefore can only express in.
The above short narrative, can be argued to limit certain qualities, such as clarification about what it is about. However, in a narrative form, the ideas expressed are communicated metaphorically, and much more vividly. Most blogs rely on your understanding of the vocabularies, most novels on the other hand rely on your understanding of the human condition, and what the novel implies about your own world position.
"He died", is informative, but mostly communicates on a non-emotional level.
Where as "I held him as the lights went out. Slowly shuttering away as he gasped and dribbled. Subtle clicks beyond my hearing as the fluorescent angels fluttered out, the white expanse of the room narrowing to black. Then it was me, and him, alone in the dark as I felt his lungs stop moving." communicates with an emotional punch.
A blog about refugees that mentions their suffering will not be as powerful, or perhaps as widely read as a blog that contains a gripping narrative on the subject as well as the facts, and certainly the narrative will place the readers much better into the prosthetic legs of the victims.
I leave you with the following repetition:

What's a blog? Why do we have the standards we do for this piece of communication? Should we have such standards?
And of course: Why don't you do what you feel you wish to do?