I just tickles me pink each time i think about it: blogs have arrived at Harvard. The "useless rantings" of adolescent teens, the "unsubstantiated, biased drivel" of "unknown journalists" -- terms which have been associated to blogs in the past -- have reached a level of significance of impressive proportions. The "fifth estate"? Well, maybe not quite yet THAT impressive. But, surely, the world can no longer ignore what blogs have to say.
The power of blogs is not in the technology, or even the news and views bloggers write about. Its not about the Internet, or even the who, the what, the why, the how. The power of blogs is in its power to unshackle the individual persona from him/herself. Blogs have become the 21st Century soap box with a difference -- we are not confined to the boundaries of a park or Speaker's Corner. The Internet is our "park" and as a tool of information dissemination, its reach, width and depth are simply unparalled. Human beings have always been inclined to expression, and blogs make it impossibly easy to connect that expression from Point A (me) to Point B (you).
What's surprising is not that blogs have arrived in Harvard but that its taken this long to get there. Not bad for a "soap box", eh?
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