In commenting on my post about big words, Ron Diorio used a fantastic analogy:

“The Gutnenberg reference always makes me laugh. It seems that blogs are more like Brownie cameras. They tarnsformed a complex technical process into a push button solution. Culturally the Brownie camera changed the way that we saw things and allowed for sharing amongst our circle of family and friends. This changed the dyamics of picture taking - masterpieces could be created without masters.”

That prompted me to pull together a little doodle about two varieties of blogger: the amateur/savant, and the professional entertainer/muckracker.