Following a link provided by Xian, found today's NY Times' piece on the modern pamphleteers. Written by Emily Eakin, it begins by mentioning how the "Ancient Art of Haranguing" has found a new home on Weblogs, where every kind of opinion ("serious, scurrilous, seditious and otherwise") finds an outlet, and goes on to describe several publishers which have kept the pamphlet alive in its original medium, the printed word.

Expected this article to be an interesting addition to my "'blog' watch", but the article is concerned with pamphleteering as a whole, not only with Weblogs themselves which are the focus of the "watch." Still, it is an enriching look into these "one-man shows," as Orwell called them, in whatever medium they appear.

I am not kidding, his sky is really falling and it is kind of comical because he is really theatrical. He is so theatrical that it occurs to me that he may be doing some drama class assignment. You know... He is telling me that he is in big trouble, because of this one event. He is frightened that because of it, many other horrible things are going to occur like dominos falling.

Over at VeryModern Astrology, Elsa tells the story of an encounter with a young man whose world seems to be coming to an end due to... well, see for yourselves.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
— Robert Wilensky