Tom Matrullo says to examine blogging specifically is to miss the point:

“21st century: demand for indigenous individuated authority and power threatens to usurp systems of producing authority and representation in both political and media arenas extending and disturbing borders of nations, media, and individuality.”

What technologies are historical aftershocks, and which are the epicentres? Is that a false distinction?

William Gibson, in interview:

“Social change today, I think you can seriously argue, is primarily technologically driven, one way or another, whether directly or indirectly. And the emergence of new technologies is not legislated – it just happens, it’s market driven. History has become market driven. And that’s a strange and very interesting place to be at the turn of the century.”