Bragging bloggers and their private trivial pursuits...

When Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple, recently expressed a worry that his country was becoming a nation of bloggers, he found himself in trouble with those sensitive souls who write about, and for, the new media.

Jobs had been making the uncontroversial point that a healthy mainstream press benefits a free society, but the more extreme zealots of online communication, who are not lacking in self-importance, saw his remarks as a betrayal of the great internet revolution.

Yet it is not the quantity of online weblogs which perhaps poses the biggest question so much as what this peculiar and new form of writing is doing to the way we communicate with one another. More...

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