Blogging from the mountain top

In a welcome recognition of the power of blogging by a regular columnist in the traditional media, JG Vassallo writes about the potential of blogging as a force for democratisation. He says that blogging will soon be " setting the democratic pace" in this country. The article appears on the online edition of yesterday's Independent but actually published today on the printed edition of the Malta Independent on Sunday. From the Malta Independent Online:

..It is fertility of insight, rather than vitriol, which nourishes democracy. This, to my mind, should be the star by which authentic opinion-makers should navigate. Opinion-makers, as well as politicians, should further bear in mind that, with the rapid advance of technology, they are being short-circuited by an expanding audience, which consumes information and interacts by computer. Blogging is democratising the process of opinion making. Before long, it will be, very largely, the blogging community that will descend from the mountain top, intent on setting the democratic pace. The media and their opinion-makers will then have to be more focused.