From September 2005 to June 2006 a team of thirteen scholars at the The University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication explored how new and maturing networking technologies are transforming the way in which we interact with content, media sources, other individuals and groups, and the world that surrounds us.

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Weblogs and the Public Sphere

Submitted by kvarnelis on October 15, 2005 - 12:30am.

In an essay on"Weblogs and the Public Sphere, Andrew Baoill suggests that the current blogosphere is dominated by a meritocracy, an "A-list of bloggers," and if the start-up costs on the Internet are low, a lack of inbound links to a site is a sure way to make it irrelevant. Baoill also worries, as I do in my piece on Web 2.0 that blogs further our disconnect from bonds based on geographic community. He leaves room for optimism "metablogs and aggregator software" have potential, but ends on a cautionary note. I'd be interested to see what readers who juxtapose these essays would say.

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