And all this time I thought John Fund was a PAC for potty parity…

Unlike the MSM, blogging is easy to get in and get out. It can be very difficult for a blogger to grow an audience beyond a handful of friends, unless they have the talent to write good posts, the discipline to tend the blog daily, and some marketing savvy.

Guys like Keller should be rightly frightened of the influence of bloggers, as they (the MSM) now have to deal with an alternate source of information that takes away some of their eyeballs. Advertisers pay for eyeballs.

This “rejiggering” of information providers will still be in a state of flux for several more years, particularly as the new high-speed Internet-2 system comes out of wraps and into homes. Instead of written posts you’ll have people posting multimedia video. Kinda scary when you think about it.

A big ego is a necessary driver for an opinion-monger, whether in MSM or blogworld. What makes Dan Rather dangerous is not his ego per se, but the closed bubble he lives in. Every one of his whims and thoughts is indulged by a universe of courtiers.

In a competitive setting like the blogosphere, spoiled behavior and stuffiness are knocked down quickly, (as you and others are now doing!) so there’s no danger.

I’d say rather (heh!), that there’s less danger, ockham.

There is reason to fear the Globalblogopoly but I never thought that cannibalism would come into play. Set your sights on Peter Jennings or Jim Lehrer if you need to gnaw on some red meat. Leave the lack of social skills issues to the left.

I think most of us thought the John Fund thing was funny rather than an actual scandal.

That was my impression, and I was there. It seemed like a 10-minute story at the most—just a little laugh. But then people are swapping long, thoughtful emails and furrowing brows and all that. Whatever.