The term “blog” was coined in 1999, and it now gets 105,000,000 google hits. Compare that to “democracy,” which only gets 43,800,000.
Wikipedia provides a fascinating and thorough discussion.
Apr 10 2005
Steven Roy Goodman writes, Colleges have long been hotbeds of political agitation, of course. But where it was once students who did the acting out, as they spread their intellectual and philosophical wings, now the professors and administrators are more likely to be playing politics -- and more and more Americans wit...
Apr 7 2005
I disbelieve what I call the Self-Interested Voter Hypothesis (SIVH for short). Political scientists like David Sears have amassed a mountain of empirical evidence against the SIVH, and the evidence on the other side (mostly economists, I'm afraid) is awfully weak. When I say that, I don't mean that that the SIVH o...
Apr 7 2005
The term "blog" was coined in 1999, and it now gets 105,000,000 google hits. Compare that to "democracy," which only gets 43,800,000. Wikipedia provides a fascinating and thorough discussion.
READER COMMENTS
Carodozo Bozo
Apr 7 2005 at 9:04pm
1. What a blog is must be defined and discussed, for it a new meme. Most people operate with the idea of democracy already ingrained. It is often assumed. (Especially in countries which speak English and publish web paged)
2. Blogs only exist online. Democracy does not.
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