Dead words on dead paper

Pamela Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins books, was also influenced by E.M. Forster's epigraph "Only connect." In her essay of the same name she writes of the theme's meaning:

…the attempt to link a passionate scepticism with the desire for meaning, to find the human key to the inhuman world about us; to connect the individual with the community, the known with the unknown; to relate the past to the present and both to the future.

Travers describes the origin of the essay's title. Students would crowd into her apartment to talk. On one such occasion Travers noted that "thinking was linking"—to which a student cried out "Yes! Only connect!" When the student reached for pen and paper to record this newly made connection she was implored by Travers to resist, saying:

Once you write things down you've lost them. They are simply dead words on dead paper.

Is this what Will and Barbara mean when they suggest "Writing stops, blogging continues."? Hector's sceptical and I think I will agree to disagree too. Although, like Will and Barbara, I find it hard to avoid the temptation to try and connect the blogging and writing worlds in my desire to find meaning.

I wonder then what Travers would make of the blog phenomenon? Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?!