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Prejean, Carrie • imminence of book "by" - it's called Still Standing, and it's dropping in four months - is elatedly announced...
Writing the history of blogs is therefore no easy task. But Scott Rosenberg, a co-founder of Salon.com - an early online-media player - and the author of the new book Say Everything, had the benefit of being around in blogging's earliest days. He talked to TIME about the history of blogs, the impact they've had on society and why they're not done reshaping the way we interact with one another. (See the 25 best blogs...
...difficult was it to chart a history of a massive and diverse thing like blogging? Rosenberg: This is a phenomenon that starts small, then diversifies, then explodes at a certain point. At the small phase, it's not that difficult to shape the story. The first part of the book is really a series of profiles of people - Justin Hall, Dave Winer, Jorn Barger - who were some of the key figures in pioneering blogging. In the middle of the book, my job became picking out the stories that had the most to teach us about what blogging was all about...
...your book, you detail several big online ventures started by smart mainstream-media titans that failed. What don't the mainstream media understand about blogging? Today there are a huge number of really great blogs under the umbrella of traditional-media companies. In the earliest days, it took a while to figure out that this form made sense. But I think it's still hard for a lot of media companies to really hand a journalist the keys to a blog and say, Go do your thing. And it's hard for journalists, even if given that freedom...
...scholars earlier this year, when several senior party officials in Guangdong province and the port city of Tianjin were arrested for corruption. "Corruption arrests are tools [party members] use to launch attacks against each other," says Victor Shih, who teaches political science at Northwestern University and has written a book on élite Chinese politics. Because corruption is so widespread in China, says a Western diplomat in the capital, any senior-level arrest is seen as politically motivated. "You could throw a stone into a crowd of senior cadres in any province and hit someone who could be prosecuted...