Driscoll has an excellent understanding of media history, but I question his time line of the emergence of the blogosphere. He seems to undervalue the emergence of news forums like FR in the late 90s as the link between news media and blogging, long before blogger.com and their success after 9-11 which he implies came from next to nowhere.
He’s also missing the next convergence, social networking married with blogging. Some day you’ll click on a blogger’s icon and see information from his myspace page, his ebay profile, his latest FR posts, YouTube videos etc,... (and what you see will be under his control)
Good call. I too was wondering why forums were not included in the article.