The least surprising development in blog-trashing is Blah Blah Blog, a snarky piece of push-back from Maureen “Aren’t I Cute” Dowd:
In a lame attempt to be hip, pols are posting soggy, foggy, bloggy musings on the Internet. Inspired by Howard Dean’s success in fund-raising and mobilizing on the Web, candidates are crowding into the blogosphere — spewing out canned meanderings in a genre invented by unstructured exhibitionists.
Inspired by the people who coined the term “Dowdify” for the practice of distorting quotations by dishonest elision, political blogs hold the establishment’s feet to the fire, and you can ask Trent Lott and Howell Raines how that works. And as far as I know, I invented the political blog in 1995 for the Coalition of Parent Support, a California grass-roots political organization. If the mighty MoDo doesn’t like this invention of mine, she should probably stop using the other things I invented or co-invented, such as UTP Ethernet and Wi-Fi. It simply wouldn’t be right for her to sully her alpha-girl cuteness with such vulgarity.