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Friday, January 07, 2005
I've been reading Hewitt's Blog and think it's a pretty good book. The one problem I'm seeing as I go through it is that I'm the one reading it but not really the one who needs to. As a "tail-blogger" who has participated in a swarm or two, I'm well aware of what the blogosphere is. Getting this book into the hands of people who don't get it and won't unless they get burned is going to be trickier. The media is at the top of the list of the clueless in this regard, having watched Jayson Blair, Howell Raines and Dan Rather get taken out while still writing about blogs like the next hula hoop or slinky.
There is one plug that Hewitt's book deserves big-time: Just as P.J. O'Rourke's Eat the Rich comes up as a top-notch econ primer, Hewitt's lessons about the evolution of text and about Luther and the Reformation ought be snuck into every decent civics and history textbook out there because they tell the stories so well whereas the typical textbook rends them so dully.
posted by gbarto at 1:38 AM
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