{"id":1729,"date":"2003-11-16T00:11:20","date_gmt":"2003-11-16T04:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/11\/16\/blogging-blast-from-a-neighboring-gala"},"modified":"2003-11-16T00:11:20","modified_gmt":"2003-11-16T04:11:20","slug":"blogging-blast-from-a-neighboring-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/16\/blogging-blast-from-a-neighboring-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Blast from a Neighboring Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is a fascinating article in tomorrows
\n (todays) Washington Post about blogging. The author, Jennifer Howard,
\n launches into a savage attack on the phenomenon, as though she feels
\n somehow betrayed by her growing addiction to the blogopshere:
\n <\/em>
\n What began as the ultimate outsider activity — a way to break the newspaper
\n and TV stranglehold on the gathering and dissemination of information
\n — is turning into the same insider’s game played by the old establishment
\n media the bloggerati love to critique. The more blogs you read and
\n the more often you read them, the more obvious it is: They’ve fallen
\n in love with themselves, each other and the beauty of what they’re
\n creating. The cult of media celebrity hasn’t been broken by the Internet’s
\n democratic tendencies; it’s just found new enabling technology. <\/p>\n

The really interesting part is that she then goes into
\n a detailed analysis of an entire constellation of blogs that I never
\n knew existed. She talks about them as if they are the center of
\n the blogging universe. As I guess she is a literary critic, they all
\n seem
\n to be by and about writers and literature.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am starting to think of the blogosphere like a rapidly
\n expanding universe, composed of unimaginable numbers of galaxies, each
\n in turn composed of a handful of brilliant stars and who knows how many
\n gravitationally affiliated lesser luminaries.<\/em><\/p>\n

In my own local galaxy the signature stars are Winer
\n and Reynolds and Lessig and Doctrow. We tend to see our own galaxies
\n as the center of the blogging universe, but who can count the galaxies?
\n The amazing thing about the Blogging universe is that we can visit these
\n other galaxies whenever we want, with or without a guide, and bring things
\n we learn back to our own local star systems.<\/em><\/p>\n

from the Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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