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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (36379)	8/7/2002 4:56:23 PM
From: paul_philp	Respond to of 281500

Karen, Here is an introduction. webreview.com Blogging is a form of personal journalism. It is also becoming a very effective filtering device for web content. IMO, a massive trend that has just begun. Paul

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (36379)	8/7/2002 5:27:13 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

For a somewhat contrasting view from Paul's, I'd recommend this: At Large in the Blogosphere nytimes.com In particular, this bit, where I picked up the "warblogger" neologism. Whenever such criticisms appear in print, the Blogosphere (the bloggers' term of choice) convulses with narcissistic egocentricity. Bloggers like to disagree, but they are unanimous about blogging's advantages over traditional journalism: greater looseness of spirit; openness to more points of view; a more conversational tone; and a compulsive honesty that has bloggers linking to articles in which they found their ideas. Norah Vincent, defending blogging on the Los Angeles Times op-ed page, went farther and argued that the hostility between the old media and blogs forms part of a larger political war, with the elite liberal media establishment on one side and populist conservative upstarts (often known as warbloggers because of their support for military actions by the United States and Israel) on the other. It's somewhat of a misapplication to call the locally dominant posters warbloggers, but their day-in-day-out commitment to the cause is probably equivalent to many in the more literal blogosphere. Me, I'm with the "life is short" crowd. I found Andrew Sullivan a lot more readable and edifying when he had an editor. And in a world where there's no particularly popular counterpart to Rush, Drudge, Fox News, or the Washington Times for those insufficiently to the right of, say, Colin Powell, I find the "elite liberal media establishments" line, oft regurgitated around here, rather ironic. There's obviously a market for all that stuff on one side of the political spectrum, though. As a sometimes poster to the W thread, I assume you're familiar with the "Real American behind W, right or wrong" / "traitor" dichotomy. I think the market caters to that kind of thought.