I’ve mentioned before that there is no grand plan for this here little blog. I haven’t mapped anything out and I pretty much make it up as I go along. I don’t much think about defining it, and my efforts in the past to make it into something it wasn’t fell by the wayside fairly quickly.

However, something happened today that caused me to pause and consider for a minute what I’m doing. I was asked to post an article by someone I don’t know, haven’t heard of, never met, expressing a point of view, expressing support for a point of view about health care in America.

I’m not going to publish the article, and it isn’t because I disagree with it. The request simply made it clear to me that this blog is first and foremost about whatever I fancy it being about and that’s it. I can imagine that with some blogs, blogs that are destined to be popular items for instance, that requests to take positions, post material, to become somebody’s mouthpiece, must be par for the course. In the case of 27th Street, I thought I had carved out a tiny little community, a small circle of friends so to speak. Who would think that this little island in the sun would attract enough attention that somebody would want to use it to express their ideas? I could see it if perhaps I wrote about American health care (I don’t think I have, have I?), and even then, I do allow comments after all.

Has anyone ever asked you for a piece of your blog action? Would you publish an article somebody sent you and asked you to publish?