Technology lets us do things with that spare time that we couldn't have done a few decades ago, and it lets those who are putting their spare cycles to use to coordinate with others. Sometimes the result is positive—Wikipedia, or PajamasMedia.com, the blogging collective. (Futurist Vernor Vinge thinks that by 2025 collaborative hobbyists will spot emerging epidemics before governments do). In my own life, the podcast series I do with my wife draws hundreds of thousands of listeners to extended interviews that wouldn't work on radio.
If Putz is going to reference Pajamas Media in the same breath as Wikipedia (which makes about as much sense as comparing Jim Lileks to E.B. White), he ought to mention that he, as a founder and current Supervising Executive Editor of the "collective," has a financial stake in the venture.
"Transparency," a fellow once wrote, is "what the blogosphere is best at." Except, apparently, when it isn't.
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