(Crossposted at my blog (Which is just getting up and running, so if you visit please be kind), and at My Left Wing.)
If you've been in the blogosphere for a while, the chances are good that most of what you have read, historically speaking, is trash. My personal journal, for example, really has little to no historical value, save MAYBE as an example of the "typical" ruminations of a 20-something liberal coming of age in the early 21st century. But what about the ones that ARE important? There is no doubt in my mind that the Blogosphere, on both sides of the political spectrum, has had a huge impact on the way that the American political system functions. The very fact that the Federal Election Committee has called a cross-section of bloggers from across the political spectrum to testify on exemptions from campaign finance law indicates how massively important the blog IN GENERAL has become. Decades from now, historians will want to examine the blog as primary source material for the turbulent era of the early 21st-century earth.
But will they be able to?
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