The Blogosphere—a land where the smart get smarter
The connected connect to one another, and the losers go home.

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BLOGOSPHERE In this essay, written for The Village Voice by Whitney Pastorek — editor of Pindeldyboz, a barely solvent literary magazine based in Astoria, Queens — some thoughts on how how blogs are ruining her life.
Her thesis: “Sad, actually, how New Yorkers have managed to turn blogs, like everything else, into a caste system.”

Raymond Tomlin

Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology.

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1 thought on “The Blogosphere—a land where the smart get smarter
The connected connect to one another, and the losers go home.”

  1. excellent article. i have noticed a wee bit of snobbery and puffery in the world of blogs but have lacked the intelligence to equate it to a caste system. i feel as though i have gained a small amount of self esteem after reading whitney’s thesis.

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