{"id":686,"date":"2005-01-13T16:24:36","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T16:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:58","slug":"on_cocoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"On Cocoons"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been noodling with the issues around the ‘cocooning’ effect of mainstream media and the impact of blogs – and conversely, the ease with which blogs could become a new layer in that cocoon.<\/p>\n

My thinking hasn’t gelled yet, but I’ll toss out three blog posts for your consideration.<\/p>\n

Over at MyDD, Jerome Armstrong starts listing<\/a> the ‘perks’ mainstream commentators are getting – speaking fees, sinecures, etc.<\/p>\n

Over at Zonkette, Zephyr Teachout comments<\/a> on the notion of buying blog mindshare by hiring bloggers, and notes that the Dean campaign did just that.<\/p>\n

On my own post on ‘astroturf’ blogging<\/a>, I’m still trying to gather cases where bloggers have become financially or professionally tied to partisan organizations. Clearly blogging is a recruiting tool – smart bloggers have the opportunity to move into advocacy or policy roles, and the visibility their blogs gives them may help that happen. But it also opens the door to a (relatively inexpensive) way to buy buzz and mindshare.<\/p>\n

I’m not pointing this out to target Kos or Jerome (both of whom were on the Dean payroll, according to Teachout, in some part because of their blogfluence). I do want to kick open a discussion of the impact of the web of influence on each of us, and the ways that web extends itself to pull in voices that otherwise might challenge it.<\/p>\n

I’m interested in all your comments and thinking as I try and work my way toward a conclusion on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been noodling with the issues around the ‘cocooning’ effect of mainstream media and the impact of blogs – and conversely, the ease with which blogs could become a new layer in that cocoon. My thinking hasn’t gelled yet, but I’ll toss out three blog posts for your consideration. Over at MyDD, Jerome Armstrong starts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}