Quote - Never have so many people written
The New York Times has a negative article on blogging, including the following statement
A few blogs have thousands of readers, but never have so many people written so much to be read by so few.
John Scalzi responds with
Well, that's not true at all, of course: The reporter has clearly forgotten all about the centuries of person-to-person letter writing, and blogs and Journals to a very great extent are descended from the epistolary impulse. This is a consistent flaw in reporting about blogs and Journals: Reporters tend to think about them as mini-newspapers or magazines, but they are equally open letters to friends and strangers (who often then become friends).
