I found this brief post at LaughingMeme, No One Knows You’re A 800lb Gorilla to be well worth sharing.

I know that much has been made of the Blogosphere in general as a driving force behind such actions as discrediting the Bush War Memos, but that was more a demonstration of the Power Of The Net than anything. This is one of those rare moments when a Major Corporation inadvertantly runs afoul of the uninhibited, activist nature of the Internet. If this had happened to a reporter, nothing would have come of it. But, because it happened to a major blogger–someone who must have a fair bit of ego and an agenda almost by definition–it turned into something much bigger than Traditional Media would ever have made possible.

This actually reminds me of the early 1990’s when people were all abuzz about the decentralizing influence The Web was going to have on society. It’s taken ten years for the pieces to fall into place, but I’m pretty excited to see what comes next.

I may only be an 8lb gorilla today, but I’m eating my ASCII’s and one day I’ll be as big as Cory Doctorow!