What began as the ultimate outsider activity — a way to break the newspaper and TV stranglehold on the gathering and dissemination of information — is turning into the same insider’s game played by the old establishment media the bloggerati love to critique. The more blogs you read and the more often you read them, the more obvious it is: They’ve fallen in love with themselves, each other and the beauty of what they’re creating. —Jennifer Howard —It’s a Little Too Cozy in the Blogosphere (Washington Post (will expire))
Item! Some Bloggers Love Themselves Too Much! Howard is right, but her realization is sooo 2001.
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So where have we gotten since 2001? Well, the counter-point actually is that the blogosphere is no different than the “printosphere” — all discourse communities fluctuate between being open and closed, self-interested and other-interested — not matter how “meta-” they get.