»Just as telephones are meaningful only when connected to the telephone network, so blogs are meaningful only when connected to the blog network. Both are carriers of human communication, but where the telephone network is essentially fixed—at least for now, until VoIP softens its structure—the blog network is malleable and is shaped by our use of it. It’s more like a nervous system than a computer network, and for good reason.«

infoworld.com

(Ich stimme da nicht so zu, man kann auch ohne andere Blogger veröffentlichen und gelesen werden, das sieht man ja auch an einigen Stellen, wenn ‘wichtige Medien’ das offizielle Weblogging beginnen und zwar im Stand Alone Modus.)