JASON KOTTKE is writing about weblogs and he’s not very happy. He’s not happy with the WarBlog Book project because he says its viewpoint is too narrow. And he’s not happy with James Wolcott’s Business 2.0 article on blogs because, well, its viewpoint is too narrow.

As to the first, I think that Max Power’s response is pretty fair. Books have viewpoints; if you don’t like them, you write your own. I mean, it’s not like Michael Moore gave me equal time in his book. Er, unless he copied some passages, but I would have heard of that. And it’s not likely anyway.

On the other hand, Kottke’s right about Wolcott, in the sense that Wolcott wrongly states that there aren’t many blogs devoted to “cultural pursuits.” There are, though you won’t find ’em on my links bar, except for Melissa Schwartz and sometimes Orchid and formerly (it disappeared during some template-mangling incident and I forgot to put it back) The Anna Franco Review. But my links (to the extent that there’s any organization at all there, which is a very limited extent indeed) are where I go, and I don’t go to cultural sites much. And the cultural sites I visit wouldn’t interest most InstaPundit readers: how many of you have ever stopped by DJ Mag, or want to? What’s funny about Wolcott’s statement, and Kottke’s criticism, is that the standard Big Media article on blogs until recently did the opposite — focused on obsessive hobbyists, book lovers, cat lovers, etc. and ignored the weblogs devoted to politics.

UPDATE: Jim Treacher had a similar reaction to Kottke’s on the Wolcott piece.