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2007-01-14 Home Front: Culture Wars

Ingathering of the intellectuals - publisher presents bloggers as pamphleteers

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Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-14 18:48|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Whilst I am not convinced for the need for dead tree versions, he is quite right about blogs being very much like the 18th century pamphleteers who, for the most part, were polemicists openly promoting a particular position. Their works circulated by hand/referral and were crucial to the explosion of ideas in the (English) Enlightenment, where almost anyone (well at least the middle classes) could promote their views and the consumers decided who to read and believe.

Posted by phil_b 2007-01-14 19:41|| 2007-01-14 19:41|| Front Page Top

#2 It remains to be seen, phil_b. He's putting his own money into the venture, and is selling only via his website and Amazon.com thus far, to keep the overhead low.

Mr. Bellow's tale of how he became a conservative. I wonder if I should start thinking of myself as a New York conservative?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-14 19:51|| 2007-01-14 19:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Better do it while he/they still can. WORLDNEWS/FREEREPUBLIC > TERRORISTS USING GOOGLE EARTH [Net] MAPS TO PLAN ATTACKS. LUCIANNE/OTHER > Continuing calls from US Pols to regulate-monitor Internet + Gooogle. LUCIANNE/FREEREPUBLIC > USDOD CAN SEARCH BANK RECORDS OF KNOWN [SUSPECTED?] TERRORISTS. ACLU p.o'd at alleged Gubmint violations of rights of privacy.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-14 23:39|| 2007-01-14 23:39|| Front Page Top

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