HW 19: Out in Black Iraq

After reading “Web of Influence” by Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell I learned a great deal about what the blogosphere represents and what it does to contribute to mainstream media. I found that the third paragraph (Kline and Burstein 84) gets the idea of blogging across most thoroughly. This paragraph provides a general understanding of the way blogs can develop over time and how the amount of readers can grow drastically due to just the content of the blog. This paragraph is most informative and interesting at the same time. The paragraph is about a blogger by the name of “Baghdad Blogger” from Iraq. It speaks about how his blog began very small and more diary-like than anything else. For example, his blog is about what life is like in a war zone, Iraq specifically. But above all he speaks about the three-day blackout they had in Iraq. It talks about how the blackout was not due to U.S. Missiles or Baathist Party thugs as they had thought. Incidentally it turned out to be just technical difficulties.