Some might say I’ve come late to the Blog Party; I’d say I’m fashionably late. But, it is true that much of the good stuff has already been talked about. Just as with my attempt to summarize the history and import of the blogging subculture in its journalistic value, I’ve discovered that months earlier, the PressThink blog wrote
What’s Radical About the Weblog Form in Journalism? with an interesting discussion in comments below, spanning the full range of opinion. I couldn’t have covered the angles better, myself.
Included is a comment from Seth Finkelstein, whose own blog takes on the Dean Bubble implosion, and the self-delusion of one former Howard Dean Campaign Manager Joe Trippi.
Now Seth’s site looks a lot like this one– because neither of us have revamped the MoveableType standard templates. And his writing on politics in the age of the Internet mirrors my own thinking: media hype and the loveaffair (appropriate or not) with all thing online created the appearance of greater support for Dean than was actually on the ground.
Is it elitist to suggest that vast majority of Americans– including those who are otherwise smart and in positions of power– still don’t get the Net?
