So ... it is easy (to some extent) then to see just how influential and important the weblog or "blog" is in our contemporary internet-based, media culture. But, who are some influential bloggers and/or influential blogs? I have my own opinions, and I would like you to form some of your own too ...
Without a doubt Andrew Sullivan (The Dish) is one of the country's most influential bloggers, and, in fact, Harvard Magazine named him the "world's most influential blogger." Sullivan, born in the UK but now living in the US is a devout Catholic, despite the fact that he is openly gay. Sullivan has done a great deal to advance awareness of issues around sexual identity even though his political stances are conservative of a libertarian-cum-republican order. He is a blogger to know.
Nicholas Carr and Mark Blumenthal are two additional bloggers to know from the political-cultural commentary world. Carr, who blogs at Rough Type (great name btw!), has recently raised significant questions around our insatiable internet dependence, most notably in an excellent article for The Atlantic Monthly, entitled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Subsequent to his article, Carr wrote a book regarding the same topic.
Other important bloggers and/or blogs include Jenny Lawson, a former Houston Chronicle reporter who blogs as "The Bloggess" (great handle, huh?), scienceisbeauty (which may single-handedly prove not all of tumblr is total trash), and James Fallows, a nationally renowned correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly.
Some important multi-author-blogs or MABs include Talking Points Memo (TPI), the Ted Blog, and The Huffington Post.
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