The Cartography of Bullshit

This is interesting commentary on a certain genre of blogging:

"Because blogging isn’t reporting, nor is it subject to much editing (let alone peer review), posts like Fisher’s are particularly vulnerable to their author’s blind spots and risk endogenizing, instead of detecting and flushing out, the bullshit in their source material. What is presented as education is very likely to turn out, in reality, obfuscation.

This is an endemic problem across the massive middlebrow 'Ideas' industry that has overwhelmed the Internet, taking over from more expensive activities like research and reporting."

It does seem like everyone has to have a blog to increase their "thought leader" status these days.