Blogwars

I have written on the internet for years. This is a good and accurate look at the blog world.

Perlmutter has written an eye-opening book about blogging. While focused on political blogging, many of the insights translate more generally, including the way talent is uncovered, how first-person reporting can occur, and how diligent experts can track down the truth better than the mainstream media.

In 1934 Columbia University social scientist Theodore Abel persuaded the German government to carry out this project among the German people: Abel offered cash prizes for the essays that best expressed how and why the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) achieved such rapid growth and popularity. Abel published the 'winning essays' and a less-than methodologically perfect analysis in 1938, under the title, [[ASIN:0674952006 Why Hitler Came into Power]].