On who this Jennifer Howard is, and why she was allowed to ramble endlessly about blogs but provide not a single fresh insight? Everything in her piece was essentially beaten to death a couple years back in the backlash at warbloggers.
Doc Searls ably deconstructs Howard’s piece.
Note to everybody who has discovered blogging in the past 30 seconds: everything good and bad about blogging has been that way since, oh, about 1998 — nothing new has happened in blogging since then, except that blogs became popular because the tools to make them became widely available.