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The Colonial Roots of Political Blogging

Aaron Barlow, assistant professor of English at the City University of New York's New York City College of Technology

Most commentary about blogging treats it as a never-before-seen phenomenon. The technology may be new, but as Mr. Barlow explains in The Rise of the Blogosphere (Praeger), citizen journalism...

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