Via Corante’s Blogging News (at least I think so&8212;I can’t verify the link now), another good exploration of the essence of blogging that tries to distinguish the medium from the uses it’s been put to so far posted August 1 at mediageek. Good set of related links at the end of the entry:
I make no claim to be revealing some eternal truth here that nobody else has ever expressed. For all I know I’m regurgitating some other blogger’s insights that I may never have even read. Are an infinite number of bloggers like an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters?
But this is what I’m thinking, and you’re welcome to comment.
Earlier:
* The Mainstream Is Addicted to Itself, or I Have Met Narcissus and She Is Journalist, 7/22/2002
* Blogging, “Warblogging,” and Punditry. Is There an Effect? Is There a Point? 1/16/2002
* Meta-blogging? Intertwining Grassroots; Connecting the Blogging World, 12/13/01
* Blogging as a Form of Journalism? 5/25/01