and subversion by introducing forms of authority and control that would seem to be anathema to its founding ideals. Bloggery is forming itself into big, institutionalised aggregators such as The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast, and remains utterly parasitic on the mainstream media it affects to despise. Even Twitter is already coming to be dominated by conventional, non-web-based celebrity--Oprah Winfrey in the US and Stephen Fry over here. The slightly more sinister aspect of this is that excessive individualism leads with astonishing rapidity to slavish conformity.
from Bryan Appleyard: The Sunday Times: Break free of this world wide delusion
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