For somebody who don't drive, I been all around the world
I've mentioned my somewhat disturbing love for Rasputina's cover of that, yes?
Any road up, I'm going to make a vague, doomed-to-failure attempt to cover all the sites in the massive list o'links over the next few days. Weeks. Over time. And speaking of Time, guess which article there is linked fairly high at Blogdex right about now.
Blogs can be a great way of communicating, but they can keep people apart too. If I read only those of my choice, precisely tuned to my political biases and you read only yours, we could end up a nation of political solipsists, vacuum sealed in our private feedback loops, never exposed to new arguments, never having to listen to a single word we disagree with.
If?
I mean, go on, guess.
Does it count as being "exposed to new arguments" when, say, Michele quotes some particularly over-the-top comment on the Democratic Underground forums or from some Indymedia site or other?
Didn't think so.
In the interests of fairness, I won't mention that Wonkette gets a mention in the Time piece. As do Jessa Crispin and Rebecca Blood, so if you're still wondering where the women bloggers are, um, there are three of them. The fairness thing extends to not making a big show of how the piece takes, um, Time to mention "when she met the first guy who linked to [her site], she started dating him" for one of them. I'm certain I just missed the bit about the dating lives of the male bloggers.
I'll focus on the race thing instead.