ANOTHER BLOGGERCON FOLLOWUP POST: Hey, I couldn’t blog then, so I’ll have to put these up as time permits.

Jeff Jarvis and I talked about someone saying that bloggers should disclose their prejudices — my comment was that a blog is one long disclosure of prejudices. I was being sort of cute, but it’s true. Everybody has blind spots and biases. Bloggers seldom pretend otherwise (though of course we all have some biases of which we’re entirely unaware). But when you read a blog for a while, you know a lot about the blogger. And it’s easy to get the other side by visiting other blogs, written by other people with different biases and blind spots, especially with the help of cool tools like Technorati, etc. That’s different from a monopoly newspaper, or a semimonopoly broadcast outlet, where there aren’t that many alternatives (though even there things are improving, thanks to the Internet and new TV alternatives). Dave Winer said that he thinks the blogosphere as a whole is the relevant unit, not the individual blog. I think that’s about right.