Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World - Softcover

Hewitt, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 078528804X ISBN 13: 9780785288046

Publisher: Thomas Nelson, 2006

Synopsis

"Blog" is short for "Web log"?an online site with time-dated postings, maintained by one or more posters, that features links and commentary. That's the most basic definition, but it is like saying a car is a means of transportation featuring four wheels. In Blog, syndicated radio talk show host and best-selling author Hugh Hewitt helps you catch up with and get ahead of this phenomenon.

"Millions of people are changing their habits when it comes to information acquisition," writes Hewitt. "This has happened many times before?with the appearance of the printing press, then the telegraph, the telephone, radio, television, and Internet. Now the blogosphere has appeared, and it has come so suddenly as to surprise even the most sophisticated of analysts."

If you doubt the influence blogs have in society, think again. Better yet, just ask Senator Trent Lott regarding his comments at Strom Thurmond's birtuday celebration. Ask New York Times editor-in-chief Howell Raines about reporter Jayson Blair's fabricated stories. Ask Dan Rather and CBS about President Bush's National Guard documents faxed from a Texas Kinko's. Or ask John Kerry about his battle with Swift Boat veterans. All of these major stories were fully covered by the mainstream media only after their exposure in the blogosphere.

"Hugh Hewitt [is] the unofficial historian of the blogging movement." ?The Wall Street Journal

About this title

About the Author

Hugh Hewitt hosts a nationally syndicated radio program heard daily in more than one hundred cities. Hewitt is a professor of law at Chapman University and a partner in the law firm Hewitt Wolensky McNulty & Hickson LLP. He is the author of more than a dozen books and is a columnist for theWashington Examiner and Townhall.com and blogs daily at HughHewitt.com. Hewitt is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School.

From AudioFile

According to Hewitt, Internet bloggers will eventually cause book publishing to disappear--though not, one assumes, before Hewitt cashes in on his current book deal. Hewitt's premise leans to the right: Conservative truth-telling bloggers (a blog is a Web site offering daily commentary) will cause the liberal elite mass media empire to crumble. If you're looking for a nonpartisan take on the social and economic effects of blogging, this is NOT the book. Hewitt's rat-a-tat-tat narrative approach works on radio (at times he sounds like Dan Ackroyd in DRAGNET) but becomes tiresome over four CDS. The book's appendices and a few other extras are included on a bonus CD-ROM. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 078528804X
• ISBN 13: 9780785288046
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256