By Ray Simar, TI Fellow

Blogging seemed inconspicuous enough when the first blogs appeared. Blogs provided a new forum for expression and discussion on any imaginable topic – and some unimaginable. It offered an unfettered exchange of ideas taking place in real time across vast distances amongst diverse individuals. But blogging, as a new communication architecture, went largely unnoticed. That is, until it came head to head with old communication architecture in 2004 when Dan Rather and CBS ran a questionable story about President Bush’s service in the National Guard.
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