"No one I know ever read a blog before"

“Before this year, blogs were a curiosity, a cult phenomenon, a faintly embarrassing hobby on the order of ham radio and stamp collecting. But in 2004, blogs unexpectedly vaulted into the pantheon of major media, alongside TV, radio and, yes, magazines, and it was Power Line, more than any other blog, that got them there,” writes Time’s Lev Grossman [via The Command Post].

Grossman gets the scoop, and the estimable PowerLine is a worthy carrier of the blogosphere's standard, BUT.  How telling that Time collapses the multifarious world of the blogosphere into one blog and leaves it at that. Where's the curiosity? We're feeling some pain for the handful of other blogs that played major roles in unraveling Rathergate and other important revelations missed or ignored by the MSM in the past few years (perhaps there'll be more names named in the actual article, not available online yet to nonsubscribers).  As for ourselves, we've been out here navigating the blogosphere for a couple of years now -- first as a reader of Drudge, then Lucianne, then Andrew Sullivan and then, starting last December, we started blogging for ourselves. During all of that time, we never considered our reading material to be "a curiosity, a cult phenomenon, a faintly embarrassing hobby on the order of ham radio and stamp collecting." We're not into dissing others' hobbies, either, for that matter, but you know how some people are. How MSM of Lev Grossman in his Pauline Kaelesque bubble ("No one I know ever read a blog before.").

But still, but still, how thrilling that one of our own, PowerLine, has broken through the envelope.  YES!!!  Congratulations and all good wishes to the blogosphere powers that be!

Update:  Forgot to mention that GW is Time's Person of the Year, but that's something of an anticlimax after Natan Sharansky's having named our president "a dissident among the leaders of the free world."

Comments

[triticale]

There was in fact a time when radio amateurs were on the cutting edge of communications. Altho that time has passed, ham radio is another hobby, like blogging and amateur astronomy, which deserves to be respected.