More than a year ago I wrote a column about my eager participation in what I called the Blogger revolution. “Bloggers”, for the uninitiated, are people who keep a weblog, a diary of thoughts, argument, musings or whatever on their own website, with links to other sites and oodles of commentary besides. In the past, if you wanted to get published, you needed a newspaper or magazine or access to a printing press; you had to get past editors, agents, media proprietors, and so on. It was a gruelling process making your way as a writer — and some of...