Oliver Willis has posted his thoughts on the “Blog bubble” and BloggerCon in a well linked piece from his blog. He challenges one of the pillars of Blogthink: that Blogging is changing the world; he argues that blogging is nothing more than a bubble, and based on his experiences of BloggerCon concludes that blogging is the pursuit of upper middle class white males. We disagree on both points. Blogging is changing the world, and it is not the pursuit of upper middle class white males (according to many suverys it is the pursuit of teenage girls). Either way, to quote Voltaire in Freedom: “I may not agree with what you say, but to your death I will defend your right to say it”, and the article is both humorous and challenging;
Deflating The Blog Bubble | Oliver Willis