So mainstream media is taking notice of the "phenomenon" (as they called it) of blogging. Most of the articles, like the one from Time, have been derisive, dismissing it as the activity of young people with "too much time and bandwidth." Well, given that everyone who has access to the net can create a blog/opendiary/whatever else you want to call it, you automatically have a very diverse population who can publish whatever they want. More than half of the net could be garbage, there can be brilliance. But all in all, you will have to be patient and look up what you're interested in.

What I find really annoying is people who do not do enough research but claim to be knowledgeable and then write something for a major publication on the subject of which he knows absolutely nothing about. The one thing they got right is that blogging is all about commentary: We are "minutemen [and women] of the digital revolution." This is more than just about reacting violenty to being refered to as cockroaches. Yes, Henry Jenkins, blogging is an extreme sport. You can expect that we are going to Blog This.

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