Blog: Hugh Hewitt

Over the weekend I read:



This seems a decent book covering the emergence of the blogging phenomenon. The author has a pretty popular blog. It is very US centric and the author is clearly has a conservative agenda, but aside from that there are some decent insights into the emergence of this new communications medium for sure. The notes I wrote as I was going through the book include:

'open source journalism'
'transparency'
'traditional media scruntiny'
'fact checking'
'symbiosis with traditional media (MSM)'

He dismisses the need for an RSS feed, but we have to recognize that as bloggers we don't all have a talk radio show to 'push' our blog, so i would have liked to have heard more about the importance of RSS and aggregated news readers.

On the whole a good, quick read, if anyone wants to borrow my copy just leave a comment and its yours (to borrow).