It was fun to read if only because of Harsanyi's amusing approach to the fulminations of the book's characterizations of blogdom. In importance, it would seem the reviewed book's author might have waited a few years (25?) before his pronouncements on such a large phenomenon. 175,000 new blogs a day are a lot to digest, though, so I suppose the book would be just what those who have already made up their minds might want to read. I won't, so it was good to read this review. dci

At first, it seems as if this review is coming in a bit late--six months after the release of Keen's book, yet David Harsanyi's perspective is much welcome. More of an editorial than a review, Harsanyi--a Denver Post staff columnist--might be expected, like many of his peers have already, to fully support Keen's view that the Internet is ruining Everything. Yet that is not the case. The only thing Harsanyi leaves out is that Keen comes from academia as much as he does from Silicon Valley and, with his own blog, ironically participates in the exact thing he disdains.