In the opinion of Will Hutton Comment is Free is the reason blogging will now assume a greater importance:
"British political internet and blogging are years behind America's. Even now, according to the British Market Research Bureau, 30 per cent of internet users have never heard of a blog. British culture is less instinctively democratic and empowering of individual voices and far more ready to mock the self-appointedly serious than, say, American society.
But with the launch of the Guardian's blogging website ('comment is free'), it may be that we have reached a tipping point. I googled Euston.Manifesto and it posted more than 200,000 results. It is beginning to attract attention not just in Britain, but in the USA, and for a good reason. Although wrong in disabling ways and philosophically illogical, it redeems itself with one golden thread in its thinking: democracy is a universal principle that must be upheld."
I rather suspect that the reason an awful lot of people have heard of Comment is Free is because of the blogs, rather than a lot of people hearing about blogs because of Comment is Free. Hey ho.
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