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Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
Before Twitter, the "blogosphere" performed much the same role in online political commentary. And it had a lot of the same features -- dogpiling, excessive nastiness, owning ("Fisking"), just slower and without the viral scaling effects. — PolitiTweet.org