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Warning: If you haven't already blogged on, you might just miss the revolution. Blogs are those online journals covering everything from knitting to the inner workings of Wall Street. They are also the place where both insiders and outsiders meet to chew the latest political story over, and over, and over again. They are addictive, just ask all those 3 am web warriors in their stocking feet tapping away in the glow of their computer screens.

Blogs offer a constant rush of political opinion: the gloating, the jeering, and those knockout punches. But not everyone thinks bringing punditry to the people is a good thing. New Yorker writer George Packer argues that by blurring the line between journalism and pure rant, blogs may not be the best thing for democracy...so who writes for you?
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"The Revolution Will Not be Blogged" by George Packer, in Mother Jones.
 



George Packer, writer for The New Yorker

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