It is one of the enduring cycles of the Internet: the techies build a utopia and then complain when noisy crowds crash their party. This time it is happening to Weblogs. ... "The Weblog world before Sept. 11 was mostly inward-looking -- mostly tech people talking about tech things. After 9/11 we got a whole generation of Weblogs that were outward-looking" and written for a general audience. Newbie "War bloggers" are pitched in a heated battle against the "veterans" of the old school. A Rift Among Bloggers |