Shocking news this morning that influential cosmology bloggers Cosmic Variance are shacking up with the Discover Magazine coterie, for reasons that simmer down to economies of scale. In the spirit of hyperbole, it seems sensible to link to Nick Carr’s recent post on the death of the blogosphere (h/t Sullivan), as well as Sullivan’s own short-form rationale for the blog post as a literary form.
I endorse independent collaborative blogging, which is not so much the half-way house between a single blogger and a community of diarists as it is that corner, best exemplified by Crooked Timber and aFoE, of the plane spanned by axes quantifying freedom of form and diversity of voice. It isn’t clear, though, whether the mock-deleterious effects of Big Blog are boon or bane to nodes like these; perhaps neither.
