HW 19: Web of Influence

After reading “Web of Influence” the Foreign Policy article by Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell, the paragraph that I decided to respond to was the first paragraph on page 86. I Chose to write about this paragraph because I found it interesting with how influential blogs keep becoming. In this paragraph the theory about "what exists, what happens, and what matters" is discussed. But what’s most important is "what matters", for example if something has no importance, then people aren't going to care about it or bother to read/write about it, but when something has significance, then its grabs people attention and makes them curious about what is said. What I found most interesting about the paragraph was the last sentence: "A few elite blogs have emerged as aggregators of information and analysis, enabling media commentators to extract meaningful analysis and rely on blogs to help them interpret and predict political developments", in other words, small time blogs that didn't mean that much were being used as a source for showing future political developments going on. In conclusion, I believe that people expressing how they feel throughout their blogs really is important because in the long run, it is going to affect a lot more than they think.