Ursula K Le Guin has begun to blog! She doesn't anticipate responding to comments and she doesn't know how long she'll keep it up but her thoughtful musings about modern life always open my eyes.
Today she talks about how technology isolates individuals, and garbles the news.
http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2010/10/24/miners-and-i-pods/#more-11566 And Sherwood Smith compares the modern blogosphere to the 17th and 18th C literary salons in Paris.
http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2010/10/24/the-more-things-change-salons-and-the-blogosphere/#more-11560 Of course both blogs are at the Book View Cafe where all the most interesting people hang out, like the 17th C literary salon...