Read the whole article for a sophisticated analysis of the modern phenomenon known as 'blogging':

The Internet is full of fools and foolishness, and has provided a forum for people to ramble and rant publicly about things of which they know nothing, or just enough to be both completely wrong and thoroughly self-righteous (a little knowledge is indeed a dangerous thing). But this is hardly a new phenomenon, nor is complaining about it. In his recent and excellently synoptic Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, intellectual historian Peter Gay includes this passage: “In 1891, Henry James lamented the overflow of literary chatter fueled by writers utterly unqualified to pronounce on such sacred subjects as contemporary fiction or poetry, music, or painting. The very multiplication of printed opinion in the Victorian age was, he wrote, summoning up his most resonant organ tones, a ‘catastrophe,’ amounting to ‘the failure of distinction, the failure of style, the failure of knowledge, the failure of thought.’” As Gay writes, “This was a little too grim-faced” (92). Plus ça change...
-- Reginald Shepherd, ' All Kinds of Favors Fall From It: Some Thoughts on Becoming a Blogger', Critical Mass