引述 :『This is key to understanding how blogs are changing political debate. Not only do they provide an easy and costless way for individuals to publish their views, but they allow them to engage in distributed arguments about those views, sometimes refining and revising them in the process. Debates in the blogosphere aren’t disinterested academic discourse, or anything like it. Serious arguments are mixed together with ad hominem attacks, insults, and irrelevancies. But political blogs are not meant to be a substitute for either journalism or academic debate. They are something new: a widely dispersed set of interlinked arguments about politics that responds with extraordinary rapidity to new events. Exactly because the blogosphere involves clashes between strongly divergent opinions, it is beginning to affect other spheres of political debate. The blogosphere serves as a crucible in which politically useful and interesting interpretations of important issues are forged and tested. Bloggers’ ability to take up a new political issue, toss different interpretations back and forth among themselves, point out flaws, and arrive at final viewpoints makes them a highly valuable resource for political professionals and commentators in search of novel and salient ways of framing issues. It’s unsurprising that survey evidence suggests that a disproportionate number of journalists and politicians are regular blog readers.』

引述 :『美國學者建立的BloggingHeads.tv，可能是一個有力的參照點。你可以說他是人文社會科學工作者建立的Im Vlog，或是替代性的YouTube，他們作的事比之前豬小草的提案更有企圖心，可以說是公共知識分子的後現代突圍策略。依私觀察，此站在試俥階段已小有成效，比起為了搶收視率的摳應節目，這種討論反而更能深入的呈現觀點，進行互動。此外，這個網站也提供RSS，充分支援blogosphere的運作，倘以時日，不可小覷。』