Conversational Era

It's natural enough to think of the growth of the blogoshpere as a merely technical phenomenon. But it's also a profoundly human phenomenon, a way of expanding and, in some sense, reifying the ephemeral daily conversation that humans engage in. Every day the blogoshpere captures a little more of the strange immediacy of the life that is passing before us. Think of it as the global thought bubble of a single voluble species. 

                  --New York Times editorial, August 5, 2005