September 01, 2004

the blog revolution

I believe that I got in on the cutting edge of a phenomenon that will not only be around for a long time, but will grow like Topsy. The internet has given anybody with an opinion and a PC the opportunity, essentially, to run his or her own newspaper. And a LOT of people are better at it than the mainstream media.

I believe that glenn reynolds may carve a notch in history by changing the way people handle information. He is my blogfaddah, and through me he has (mis)begotten many others. I don't see this trend slowing down.

The great thing about bloggers is the interactive communication that they encourage. If you get pissed off at the local newspaper, you can write a letter to the editor, which they may or may not print, and they'll edit the shit out of it if they DO print it.

Get pissed off at a blogger. Fire off an email. You usually receive a response very quickly and you get to communicate with the person who WROTE what pissed you off. That's fair and square with me. Even if the person tells me to go fuck myself at the end of our debate, I still got to talk to the right guy. I like that.

We have fact-checkers. We have our fair share of idiots, but we have savants, too. At the risk of sounding crazy, I'm going to posit an idea: Ten years from now, blogs will be known as a reliable source of information and a lot more people will be reading the good ones.

Wait and see.