More on the Changes in the Blogosphere

Wow, this little post that I wrote in 20 minutes went big time. It was just translated in Romanian. And just today from the Atlantic,

But is this really true? Among some of the biggest bloggers, this
notion is increasingly seen as suspect. In early July, Laura McKenna, a
widely respected and longtime blogger, argued on her site, 11D,
that blogging has perceptibly changed over the six years she’s been at
it. Many of blogging’s heavy hitters, she observed, have ended up
“absorbed into some other professional enterprise.” Meanwhile, newer or
lesser-known bloggers aren’t getting the kind of links and attention
they used to, which means that “good stuff” is no longer “bubbling to
the top.” Her post prompted a couple of the medium’s most legendary,
best-established hands to react: Matthew Yglesias (formerly of The Atlantic, now of ThinkProgress), confirmed that blogging has indeed become “institutionalized,” and Ezra Klein (formerly of The American Prospect, now of The Washington Post)
concurred, “The place has professionalized.” Almost everyone weighing
in agreed that blogging has become more corporate, more ossified, and
increasingly indistinguishable from the mainstream media. Even Glenn
Reynolds had a slight change of heart, admitting in a June interview
that the David-and-Goliath dynamic is eroding as blogs have become
“more big-media-ish.” All this has led Matthew Hindman, author of The Myth of Digital
Democracy, to declare that "The era when political comment on the Web
is dominated by solo bloggers writing for free is gone."

I've got to run out and meet the school bus, so I'll have to add more later. Wow. Still blushing.