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It just keeps getting better and better. [Via Xanada] .< 3:31:19 AM  >MSNBC - The Alpha Bloggers The lesson is that there's a new force[~]spearheaded by people who work for no bosses and whose prose never sees an editor's pencil[~]that provides the water-cooler fodder for the larger high-tech community. Its power extends not only to high-tech cool-hunting but also to what's politically correct, geek style. (Open source... gooood. Onerous copy protection... eeeevil.) And the significance of this phenomenon has some important implications for the way opinions will be formed in the decentralized world of Internet media.
Let's consider the tech bloggers who make up the A-list. No one hired them. No one appointed them. All you need to start your own Weblog is some cheap software tools and something to say. Out of the inchoate chatter of the Web, the sharpest voices simply emerge. Certainly there are those[~]like Dave Winer, an early proponent who just completed a yearlong stint organizing a blog community at Harvard[~]whose reputation preceded them into the blogosphere. But more common are the people like Linux Journal editor Doc Searls, a long-respected tech observer whose well-read blog has made him a virtual brand, or Dan Gillmor, whose "We the Media" book is the blogging manifesto.
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