http://www.nymag.com/news/media/15972/
An interesting graph of how the 50 most popular weblogs out in the wild link to each other. Looking at this, one gets the feeling that a side effect of web-based social networking is cliques. How can we avoid it? How does someone new break in? (Robert Scoble has some ideas.)
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"These days people use the term "web" to mean basically something you can view in a web browser. But that does not mean it is *of* the web."
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"In hindsight I don't think any reasonable person can say that we're collectively better off. Democracy is losing, and tech is playing an undeniably outsized part in that."