I was watching the Ken Burn’s documentary entitled Jazz the other night while trying to get my daughter to fall asleep and I was struck by how similar the Internet is to Jazz music. 

Wynton Marsalis is interviewed in the film and he lists out quite a few characteristics of Jazz music:

• improvised
• expressive
• collaborative
• entertaining
• creative
• unrestricted
• inventive
• experiential

Those characteristics sounds uniquely like the Internet (and no other medium).  The Internet is like Jazz music, and as bloggers, we are creating (and enjoying) the music of the Internet.