Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters

Blogs are not a fad. They are a new species of written conversation, a complex network of influence spanning everything from political debates to torrid confessions to urgent bulletins from first responders. The days when three network anchors would tell us what to think are gone; now we get to tell one another.Say Everything offers close-ups of blogging innovators like Blogger founder Evan Williams, Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, exhibitionist diariest Justin Hall, and many others, and explores the dilemmas that still face bloggers: How much if their private lives should they reveal? Should they blog for the love or for money? Is blogging anonymous ranting or honest, unmediated discussion? Through their stories, Say Everything presents essential insights into privacy, self-expression, authority, and community for all of us in the era of Google and Facebook.In his first book, Dreaming in Code, Scott Rosenberg brilliantly explored the art of creating software ("the first true successor to Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine," wrote James Fallows in The Atlantic). In Say Everything he brings the same perceptive eye to the blogosphere, capturing as no one else has the birth of a new medium.