I am reading Naked Conversations right now, so perhaps that’s why I am so concerned about free speech in the blogosphere and why I believe that all the people who balked at the appearance of politicans at the French Le Web 3 conference last week are short-sighted. If the blogosphere talks only to itself, and doesn’t really develop a dialogue with the outside world, it’s useless.
And by the way, the French have a tradition of engaging in political discourse and taking it seriously. In America, we just don’t know that. To mix a metaphor, “when in Rome…”
