Just a sentence I read upon opening Dewey’s The Public and its Problems from 1927: “In general behavior in intellectual matters has moved from the public to the private realm.” (p. 50). Would that hold in times of ubi-blogging? Not if blogging is taken as publishing (which I think it should). Could you now write “In general behavior in intellectual matters has moved from the private to the public realm”? Not yet, I’d say. Though for some it would be true.