Here’s a great example of the phenomenon Jerry wrote about recently–the blogger network being more knowledgeable about many subjects than the old media “experts.” Juan Cole is a professor at the University of Michigan, an expert on the Middle East and is fluent in Persian, the language of Iran. He ...

The conventional wisdom is the bloggers are mostly know-little blowhards. Like much conventional wisdom, this perception has a little truth, but it’s false at its core. Talking Points Memo’s guest blogger Matthew Yglesias is more insightful: One of the most neglected aspects of the blogosphere, in my opinion, is that ...