Demagogue

Yum. Nice little ditty about the point and purpose of blogs and blogging and the invisible people behind them.

By my lights, the best blogging offers a Bizarro World alternative to the mainstream media. Their content isn’t determined by agenda-setters and opinion leaders who tell you what you need to know—then tell it to you again, every hour, on the hour, all day long, like CNN. They aren’t run by editors who want to sell your attention to advertisers who want a piece of your niche demographic.
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The cultural critic Julian Dibbell had it just about right when he theorized the weblog as postmodern wunderkammer— an idiosyncratic jumble of found objects (in this case, ideas and images, facts and fictions scavenged from the global mediastream) that “reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the ‘discovery’ of the networked world.” Some of the most consistently enlightening and entertaining blogs are the inscrutable products of borderline obsessive-compulsives.

Hmmm. Remind you of anyone you know? The whole piece is worth reading, it captures blogdom quite nicely, if you're into that sort of thing.