Newsweek On A-List Bloggers and Power Shifts

The lesson is that there’s a new force—spearheaded by people who work for no bosses and whose prose never sees an editor’s pencil—that provides the water-cooler fodder for the larger high-tech community. Its power extends not only to high-tech cool-hunting but also to what’s politically correct, geek style.

(Open source… gooood. Onerous copy protection… eeeevil.) And the significance of this phenomenon has some important implications for the way opinions will be formed in the decentralized world of Internet media.

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How long will it be before that last sentence reads something like:

” … has some important implications for the way opinions are formed and people interact and learn in an increasingly decentralized workplace and in their daily lives ?”