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There is even blog-based humor. (I wrote one after the
Martha Stewart trials began and it can be found here:)
http://strom.com/awards/332.html

The number of blogs attributed to our president are much
more interesting to read than the "real" one, if W.
actually writes his own. My favorite prez pun blog is
here:
http://www.theonion.com/images/395/article_popup2910.jpg

Okay, enough flogging of blogging. Let's get on to
the bigger blog issue, which as I mentioned earlier
revolves around the trust between writer and reader. As
the number of blogs increases, it becomes harder for
readers to stay with a blog long enough to develop a
rapport with the blogger. If I am a devoted reader of the
New York Times, I generally trust the stuff that I find in
that venue and come to appreciate its liberal leftist
leanings on the news. The same is true with blogs: I would
tend to follow those columnists, or personalities, that I
have affinity with. As one blogger put it, "the
all-around-good-guys and platinum members of that
exclusive fraternity of techno celebs who are my close
personal friends."

But as the number of blogs approaches the overall computer
population of the planet, it becomes harder to locate and
align with the right-(or left-) thinking bloggers.

But it isn't just the sheer quantity. The bloggers
themselves are beginning to see where having the training
of journalists (or those of us who pretend to be) helps.
They need the experience to make judgment calls about the
information that they present to their devoted public.
Let's look at the example of Mark Willett's blog called
music.for-robots.com:
http://music.for-robots.com/archives/000423.html