Monday, January 31, 2005

Chill, blogophiles; you're not the first to do what you're doing

"Jeez. Take a pill, all you blogomaniacs. Blogs are fun. Blogs add a fascinating new element to public discourse. But blogs are another turn of history's wheel, not a radical departure."

I found it kind of strange that Maney studiously notes Thomas Paine's pamphleteering but excludes any reference to the zine/mail-art craze that occupied so much of my time before the Web existed.

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