Blogosfera

.../ The blogosphere is ten years old, more or less. Never has so powerful and disruptive a communications technology appeared in so short a time.

The blogosphere is not for everyone. But it is an amazing and durable invention, an invaluable addition to the kaleidoscopic array of media with which we make sense of our lives: books, movies, newspapers, comics, magazines, radio, television, ad, of course, advertising. Rosenberg describes the new kid on the block this way:
Whatever the drawbacks and limitations of blogging, it serves, today, as our culture’s indispensable public square. Rather than one tidy “unifying narrative,” it provides a noisy arena, open to everyone, for the collective working out of old conflicts and new ideas. As the profession of journalism tries to rescue itself from the wreckage of print and rethink its digital future, this is where its most knowledgeable practitioners and most creative students are doing their hardest thinking. .../