I have been watching with great interest the attention given to the Judy Miller Plamegate investigation.

Not only because of the political ramifications of whether there is an indictment and whom, but more because it represents another tipping point in the growing up of blogs. During the last few years the role of the traditional media has changed markedly. And during the same time the blogospere has been growing up.

It has been growing just the same as the internet did. Remember when there used to be discussion about the digital divide. Now there is a further divide between those who are blog-aware and those who are not.

Blogging is what really draws together the communal aspect of the medium. It also is causing there to be a real change in the way events of state are reported. Will the emergence of the extremely deep but very narrow niches of political opinion be able to be woven into the existing political process?

And how will legislation be able to wrap itself around this?