Link parkin: Alex Halavais posted his AOIR 4.0 conference paper and slides. I haven't had a chance to dig through them, but my read of the intro is that the current space of weblogs can be viewed in much the same fashion as unruly turn of the century cities. Cities which were eventually given shape and order by legendary urban planners. This suggests potential research directions regarding this media environment.
So where's the blogosphere's Daniel Burnham going to come from?