Blogging, like the internet itself, gives voice to all. Certainly better than the voice of a few being forced into our eyes and ears, but is blogging the pendulum swung to the opposite extreme?
More information also means more misinformation - how, pray tell, to sort through it all and separate the wheat from the chaff when we are already bombarded constantly by more than we can possibly take in? Blogged or not, what can we believe?
The internet and blogs allowed Vermont's former Governor, Howard Dean, rise from obscurity to familiarity - but it was more than blogging alone - it was meet-ups, too. Face-to-face in many a place, but still he could not win the race (ooops - slipped into Seussism...)
Where were the grassroots voices pre-blog? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
Hey - is it time to head north?
Canada - the country for blue-staters?
