the big kids of left blogistan have been beating up on swampland quite a bit since it launched a couple of weeks ago, particularly joe klein. klein is part of the washington press establishment, with all the juicy prejudices that come with that. so he makes an easy target now that he's writing something that looks very much like a political blog.
the thing is that klein really isn't blogging. sure, he's writing a blog. but "blogging", or at least political blogging, is essentially a conversation. and klein is not conversing with anyone. for example weeks ago klein delivered a challenge to the bloggers of the left. it was immediately answered by booman. and joe's response (as far as i can tell)... was nothing. he just ignored it. he didn't even acknowledge that anyone had answered his challenge.
even though klein is writing for the swampland blog, i think he treating it more like an online column than a blog. maybe he doesn't know how this works.
