Mopsos

The revolution will not be blogged of George Packer apparently caught a lot of attention in the blogosphere. For more, listen to the excellent broadcast of the Connection on wbur, my favorite radio station.

The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive — that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They're so easy to consume, and so endlessly available. Their second-by-second proliferation means that far more is written than needs to be said about any one thing.

Maybe George Packer mises the point. Blogging is not a new form of egomaniac journalism. When you're blogging, you're not broadcasting a post, hoping to be read by the entire world thus satisfying your ego. You are engaging -or trying to engage- into a conversation with a few like-minded people. You are sending ideas into the blogosphere like pollen in the wind to see whether they will fertilize others. It's all about making personal connections and build "communities of meaning", unbounded by geography.

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