If your only knowledge of current events came from a sampling of random xanga, you’d have a good clue that spring is in the air but no idea whatsoever of the war in Iraq. 

I randomly sampled 20 sites with blog dates Of March 21st or later.  Not one mention of war.  Here, instead, were the topics discussed:

speeding ticket
college
coping with alcoholism
volleyball practice
band pics
the Oscars
xanga premium/eprops
creatively destructive ranting and raving
prom/relationship
avoiding dirty old men
rainy day
basketball loss
sunburn and pinkeye
lacrosse and meds
warm weather
snowboarding/atm/pillow fights
love bf/gf
a trip to VA for games
Hi!
music lyrics

Meanwhile, even though mentions of ‘warblogs’ dominate the non-blogging news about ‘blogging’ (see my blog 2 items below), and even though ‘warblogging’ seems like a couture item with some blogelites, blogging about the Iraq war seems to be falling off the fast track for now.  Perhaps it’s because the ‘embedded’ news media with their live visionphones have leaped over the blogosphere to make the impact of war more immediately accessible in the context of the established news media than ever before.  Perhaps it’s because the internet so far seems aware of (and thus has made semi-famous) only one Iraqi citizen blogger genuinely sharing his experiences from Iraq.  And even one of the most popular warblogs of this campaign, CNN’s Kevin Sites private blog about his on-the-ground experiences in Iraq, has been squashed by disapproving CNN management. 

So it seems both in the mainstream (random) and even at the cutting edge of technological presentation, warblogs are losing the war of media preemption. 

Well, it doesn’t matter, dammit.  Bloggers have better things to do!