Out of Cheese

It’s rather popular at the moment to discuss whether blogs will eventually take over for standard media. While that seems rather unlikely, there’s an increasing consensus that some bloggers are exerting a larger influence over the rest of the world than life pre-blog.

None of that’s particularly Earth-shattering in and of itself. But the thought comes to mind that the popularity of certain independent blogs is very reminiscent of Orson Scott Card’s description of the experiences of Peter and Valentine Wiggin. I’d always thought of newsgroups when Card described the Wiggin siblings’ experiences on the “nets”, but it seems that blogs are a much better fit. I wonder what Card had in mind.