Matt Welch has a nice post-mortem for the 2001 blogging boom, in which he recalls the days when the whole post-September-11th-attacks thing seemed like it would really shake up American politics, and that weblogs were at the forefront of a grand realignment. That failed pretty spectacularly, didn’t it?
It’s a good piece, both recalling what things were like then (I didn’t have a general-purpose blog yet, but I was booklogging, and regularly reading most of the top blogs of the day), and lamenting how far we’ve fallen. Sadly, I discovered this via Ted Barlow’s farewell post. Another one, as they say, bites the dust.