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Calderon

I think you are right and I made an extreme “metaphoricalrelationship between the political sphere we're talking about and blogs”. Buther “blog” is not very open. I think that if there is something that blogs areknown for are the sense of community response they have.

akeefe  saysthat “she does seem to have a community eager to hear from her.” Doesn’t thissound like column to you? The fact that people are eager to hear from herdoesn’t mean that it is a legitimate blog. It means that her readers are waiting for a story they can only admire, the truth is that if that is what ablog is then I don’t want to be a blogger since in what I am interested is in contributing  to the  process of its development not admire a great writer, I guess this where academia comes in. If I want to read a great story I guess I like better a book, something I have in my hands and I can touch and know I can’tchange. I am not saying that the stories she writes are not great, but they do not welcome participation. This is why blogs are so popular, because the readers can become the writers not because the readers can commen on a great story.