http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a431.asp
Inevitably a blog about IT has to refrence remarks about blogs -- and here is a highly persuasive argument -- that since our trust in big media is continuously eroding [for a host of reasons which make perfect sense to me], that blogs represent a form of high-tech samizdat, operating as a reality check.
Apart from the fact that there is no harm from hearing many voices [so long as they are not prone to deafening argumentation] there is much here, I think, that the eye misses. For "underground" to exist, there must be some "overground" in the first place. Symptom and cause must be closely correlated, which requires more than a little investigation.
The communication web that the Net in general and blogs in particular needs its history recorded and analysed. Remember always, when we watch, the object of our inspection can always be watching us back -- especially if we are looking in a metaphorical mirror.
Posted by jho at June 25, 2003 10:01 PM