Essay about blogs

At Large in the Blogosphere by Judith Shulevitz. This was written in May 2002, when the popularity of blogs, if I recall correctly, was just taking off. I can't remember why I clipped it. Was the concept of blogs new to me then? Was there a specific blog she mentioned that I wanted to check out? Did she write something I thought especially insightful? The article does seem dated now, but this still made me laugh:

Needless to say, blogs are addictive. They are not, however, the most economical use of your time. To read blogs requires a willingness to wander from link to link in the hope that some mind-numbingly detailed dispute over, say, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Catholic Church's position on homosexuality or an Oscar nomination will resolve itself into a usable insight.

Finding this clipping also reminded me how much I enjoyed Judith Shulevitz's essays, which appeared regularly for a while on the last page of the Sunday New York Times Book Review. Then one day, her essays were no longer there. Was she fired? Did she retire? Were the editors restlessly seeking the latest new thing? I never did find out.