THE BLOG AHEAD One of the Internet pioneers takes a look at the impactand futureof the Blog Revolution. Ideas are flashing around the world at light speed and R. SCOTT HALL an Internet pioneer from the early days at CompuServe and online entrepreneur explores and brilliantly illuminates the way blogs are transforming the way human beings connect minds. Bloggers Hall maintains are at the forefront of the greatest change in the life of the mind since the Gutenberg press. Individuals with no establishment connections or entre can connect with millions worldwide relying solely on the power of their ideas and their prose to getand influencean audience that print journalists and authors could only dream of. Communities of interest unlimited by time and space are springing into existence now they are even exerting force on the traditional levers of power. Hall gives a trenchant often humorous analysis of this revolution in the human Zeitgeist ranging from politics to media to the arts. Heres some of the fascinating terrain he covers in his analysis of how blogging is reshaping the world of ideas affecting global public opinion and mass media ampamp61607 This new form of horizontal communication is examined and compared to its feeble predecessors ampamp61607 Blogging runs smackdab into the Rear Guard and both sides end up blinking ampamp61607 The remunerated wordsmiths test the new blogging waters for unmined gold ampamp61607 Businesses from the Drucker Era bow down to the great god Gates ampamp61607 The next generation of leaders master the tools they will use ampamp61607 The dank world of geekery meets the highwattage expectations of aesthetics ampamp61607 The blogosphere autoassemblesandbecomes a powerful force for change Finally Hall assembles a list of Axioms of Blogosophy principles for the first true citizens of the world. This survey of the world of blogs is only a sampling of the wonderful surprising and occasionally repulsive experiences that await the undaunted a