Who Are All These Bloggers?
And what do they want?
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Jack Shafer called blogs overrated and got mauled for it. So he gave blogging a try. Josh Levin speculated that rappers and bloggers share DNA. Kurt Andersen and Andrew Sullivan debated whether blogs are changing our culture. Steven Johnson marveled at the potential of the Google-Blogger team-up. Shafer also explained what newspaper history can tell us about the future of newspapers—and, of course, blogs.