Blogging Goes Mainstream!

New York is a small limited circulation magazine sold mostly to locals who value the restaurant tips and entertainment reviews.  What makes it stand out from similar magazines in Houston or Denver is the waterfront it covers – the down-and-dirty trenches and foxholes of Manhattan, where new trends come to breed.  The cover article on this week’s New York is entitled “The Blog Establishment; The Emerging Hierarchy of the New Media” by Clive Thompson, and it explains how blogging, like every other human endeavor, has created a hierarchy and an aristocracy.  This article and Dave Sifry’s State of the Blogosphere constitute a good introduction to this ever-changing media target.