Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture

May 8, 2010  |  Posted by admin  

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Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture

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6 comments

  1. C. McNamara says:
    May 8, 2010 at 10:06 pm

    I was very disappointed in the book. Unfortunately, there’s at least as much ranting from the author about his views of what’s wrong with the political left, and as much of his glorifying of the political right, as there is info about blogs. Info about blogs seemed to be only a backdrop from which to share his strong right-wring political views. If you are a strong right-winger, buy the book. Otherwise, if you are a centrist, on the left, or interested primarily in blogs, don’t buy this book.

    Rating: 1 / 5

  2. Software Maintenance says:
    May 8, 2010 at 10:39 pm

    I have read a number of books about blogging. This one is by far the worst. It is a bunch of essays and interviews. Lot of focus on politics. Not really much focus on blogging. This title of this book should not be “blog!”. Although I have never written an Amazon review before, I felt I had to warn everyone about this dud.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  3. JackOfMostTrades says:
    May 8, 2010 at 11:52 pm

    If you want to read about some interesting blog developments and some socio-political analysis of the blogging phenomenon, this book will introduce you to such topics, but it does not reflect the blog universe from the perspective of the serious blogger. The phenomenon of Blogging is metamorphosizing so quickly, that much in this book is getting out of date. If you recall why cable TV had a ‘buzz’ when it first came out, it was basically for three reasons: a) to offer greater access to production; b)commercial free programming; and c) better quality images. The first two have been co-opted by the cable industry and the third is largely irrelevant thanks to DVD programming (unless you are a sports freak whose idea of ecstasy is to watch emerald green grass in a ball field. Blogs already exist that are shills for major corporations (for example, there are blogs that look like ‘on-line journals’ that are sponsored and produced by corporations–really a form of P.R., and unless you can get paid full time for blogging,or have an organization/interest group supporting you, or form a co-op blog of writers, who could possibly maintain a first rate blog besides a) college professors and b)stay at home with lots of free time people (these two categories are not mutually exclusive).
    Rating: 3 / 5

  4. Sean Patrick Coon says:
    May 9, 2010 at 12:16 am

    As good as the ideas are in this book, from the perspective of a hardcore blogger, this author has zero street credibility.

    I was introduced to David Kline as a public figure, per chance, by catching him on The O’Reilly Factor. While I almost exclusively watch O’Reilly segments through Media Matters for America, I tuned into this particular segment about slanderous websites, because I was interested in hearing O’Reilly spinning reality once again.

    Kline was a guest, supposedly the balanced guest from the left, who was immediately blown away by the conversation and O’Reilly. How so? Kline couldn’t even engage in the conversation, because he had never even heard of Media Matters, the site that O’Reilly focused his vengeance upon.

    Huh?

    So I go to Kline’s blog and I get involved in a few of his posts. The first is basically an open apology to the left and to bloggers for how he allowed himself to be used and abused by O’Reilly. A ton of people posted comments, with many getting on him for his lack of preparation when appearing on an obvious ambush show.

    At first glance, I shrugged it off as a poor showing and gave the guy a break. Today, my perspective changed. Why? Go to his site, blogrevolt, and scroll down to the lower right side of the page. His “site” (his nomenclature) is being managed by Christian Sarkar, a marketing guy that has coined his own website marketing strategy called, “Double Loop Marketing.”

    Let me get this straight; a guy with no hours put in as a blogger (his archives go back two months at the time of this review) writes, authoritatively, about the future of blogging (“Blog! How The Newest Media Revolution Is Changing Politics, Business and Culture”) and has someone “managing” his “site?” Apparently, creating a blog template is too much for this “blogger” so he hires a marketing guy to build his blog, along with providing a strategy to pitch his book on the future of blogs to a demographic, which includes bloggers that come to his blo… I mean… “site?”

    No wonder Billy Boy’s staff picked this guy.

    Kline is the one representative of the “blogging community” O’Reilly finds to placate the balanced coverage that Media Matters so devilishly demands… and he just so happens to not know who they are?

    This a perspective from the outside, someone who created a blog to promote the sales of a book while looking inside his subject matter.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  5. Elizabeth A. Root says:
    May 9, 2010 at 12:37 am

    This is a collection of short pieces, some written especially for the book and some reprinted from other sources. The authors have also interviewed a number of the more famous bloggers or other people analyzing the trend. This variety makes it an extremely useful introduction to the phenomenon. It certainly isn’t a gripping read, but the ideas are fascinating. This is not a how-to book, except in the sense of explaining some of the capabilities of the format, and exploring what makes a good or bad blog.

    Kline and Burstein have a fairly balanced view of blogs, expecting them to be quite significant, but acknowledging that they cannot be expected to creat a new utopia, and that the future is very much still forming. The book is somewhat slanted, but not uncritically, in favor of blogs, perhaps because the authors feel that love them or hate them, they’re here to stay. They point out that the purposes of blogging are age-old, although the technology now allows communication on a grand scale.

    The book acknowledges that most blogs are personal, i.e., intended mainly for friends and family (although still open to public view), but they concentrate on the publically oriented blogs, especially the political and the business.

    Fortunately, having gotten me all gung ho on reading blogs, the book has appendixes giving guidance to various blogs of great general interest. They also have an blog updating the see future of blogs (see productwiki, below).

    I recommend this to everyone, especially those who are not currently familiar with blogs.
    Rating: 5 / 5

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    May 11, 2010 at 2:18 pm

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