Book Review - Blog

Last night I finished Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World by Hugh Hewitt. It took me a while to get to it as I needed to get some other books done, or at least started. Oh how I wish I'd started it earlier as I've been reinvigorated about blogging. In fact I'm looking at having some guest bloggers within the next few months. In reading Hugh's book he brings home the point that the events of the Protestant Reformation are paralleled in the rise of the blogosphere. With or without the breakaway of the Protestants the Catholic Church needed change. With or without the blogosphere the news delivery systems need to be reformed. Even before the advent of the blogosphere there has been a drastic drop in the ratings of the MSM with people flocking to Fox News and talk radio.

I look at Hugh's book and the warnings he offers to everybody need to be heeded. Corporations and high-profile people must realize that everyone is watching. You never know who's in your audience or organization. When an injustice occurs it only takes one blogger with a few readers and a firestorm can be started. Hugh offers some great defenses but many will not read this book and will suffer. I'm trying to figure out how to get this book into the hands of the higher ups in my company.

As I read Hugh's book I remember the inspiration from In, But Not Of to create this blog. I'd been messing around on Live Journal and Blogspot but when I read that book it changed my life in many ways. Why do I blog? As a friend of mine sings, "I want to see miracles, to see the world change". That's why I blog. I blog about whatever floats my boat as, I guarantee, there are many folks who care about the same topics that I do (with varying opinions). If I can get one person to ponder a post and they are inspired to greatness, that's what it is all about.

I cannot do anything but highly recommend reading Hugh's latest book and encourage others to start reading blogs. Please check out the links to your left and begin reading blogs before checking the other Martha Stewart, Michael Jackson junk via the MSM later. The blogosphere is filled with experts of all types with all kinds of views. The MSM is severly handicapped by it's bias. According to Hugh the first blog appeared around 1999 and within 3 years had a big part in removing the Senate Majority Leader and 2 years after that had a huge role in removing the leadership of the New York Times, gave voice to the Swift Vets and blew up CBS News over fraudulent documents, thought to bring down President Bush. It's safe to say that the truth from the blogosphere helped keep the current president in office.

I know that this has become more than just a book review and has become a big advertisement for the blogosphere. Sorry but it has to be done.

Posted by Tim at March 7, 2005 09:20 PM