Wednesday, July 23, 2003
...big time.
Front of the City&Region section of today's Boston Globe:
Boston Globe Online / City & Region / 'Blogs' shake the political discourse
But he has a political platform of his own, a website called oliverwillis.com, which he runs from his sparsely furnished apartment in Dedham. And when he posted an essay there, promoting former Vermont governor Howard Dean for Democratic nominee, he drew a flood of comments from people he had never met. When Oliver Willis talks, it turns out, the blogosphere cares.
That's the beauty of a ''blog'' (short for weblog), an online journal that can turn anyone with an Internet connection into a mini-media outlet. Blogs are easy to create, cheap to set up, and commonplace on the Web. They can draw thousands of readers per day and dozens of posted comments in a running conversation that Willis likes to think of as talk radio for the wired.[...]
All in all a fairly accurate, if a bit vanilla, article that does a good job in introducing the concept of the political blog to the uninitiated, although I'm not sure that the author really explains how a blog is different from a typical web site in its frequent updating, however. /quibble