[lbo-talk] Blogosphere [was Re: Karl Rove Beats The Rap]

[B.]

There was some piece (NYT?) that said the blogosphere was to the contemporary left what AM talk radio began to be for the right in the 1990s.

  

 Carl, you brought up YoGabbaGabba -- check this brief video clip out, which is of a similar bent, but from Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5qoMfBJUeI

 

 As for blogging, it's still really hard for me to figure out what the hell I should spend my time reading regularly. Signal-to-noise ratio. Dennis Perrin's is def. good.

 

 -B.

 

 

 

 Carl Remick wrote:

 

 "I think Lear's phrase nails it better:  'full of sound and fury, signifying  nothing.'  I suppose the same thing could be said of listservs, but I think  they're productive in a way blogs aren't -- being less onanistic, more  democratic and more dialectical."