Edited by author 03-14-2003 08:29 AM
You put your finger on an interesting distinction that Doc Searls and others have made, between blogs that don't link and those that do. I.e., the "comfortable" sameness of ideologues who are reassuringly the same day after day will please some, but turn off others. Blogs that are interacting with what is going on elsewhere seem richer, more alive. Doc is a good example of someone who brings sharp intellect to a wide variety of interests, offering rich cross sections of time, place, persons. It's at bottom a key difference between inert print and bouncy blogging.