So, the blogosphere will be fine, but just another part of a massively enlarged information environment. Here's the difference: We used to be "ink-stained wretches," but with so many media available ...

When I started Jacobin in 2010, my first milestone of the magazine “making it” wasn’t a glossy cover or a TV hit. It was landing on a Crooked Timber sidebar. If you came of age in the mid-to-late ...

Technorati has searched through its own search index of the world’s blogs and released new data on the state of the blogosphere in 17 months. And my, there are a lot of us bloggers out there. It’s ...

Like the drunk in the old joke, searching for his lost keys under the streetlamp because the light is better there, we tend to measure the political influence of new media by the most easily ...

December 21, 2010 Update: An adapted version of this paper, which focuses on the political aspects of the Arabic blogosphere and its role in the networked public ...