The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (It Will Be Blogged)

Hello blogoshpere. T. Paine here. You may remember me from such works as The Age of Reason, Agrarian Justice, and Common Sense.

Common Sense a smash hit: Show me the publishing money!

In celebration of the upcoming 235th Anniversary of the smash hit, Common Sense, I've decided to start my own blog. I've been waiting for the perfect time to start pamphleting again, and I think the time has finally come. I was cheering you guys on from a distance when some of you started using early weblog prototypes in the 1990s. But not until more recently in the 2000s did the user participation stats meet my standards.

Did you know that when I wrote common sense back in 76' (1776 that is), one quarter of all American citizens read it? And how coincidental is this- Jeeves of www.ask.com (we go way back) told me that one quarter of the Earth's population uses the internet. Of that twenty-five percent, he says it's probable that seventy percent of those internet users are bloggers! According to my calculations, that's 1.2 billion people! Do you understand the ramifications of that? That means that 1.2 billion people have the ability to present their own unique opinions and ideas with out censorship. We founding fathers fought for a better world for all you young people with the tools that were available- quills and parchment... and blades and munitions... and sometimes scorching hot oil. At your disposal today is a tool much more powerful: a medim capable of insant mass transmission. I leave you with this: if Perez Hilton's celebrity gossip blog can get 8.2 million hits a day, just think of the potential for something with real meaning to humanity. I assure you my friends, the revolution will not be televised. It will be blogged.

An absolute madhouse, I tell you.

More on this later. My iPad is about to run out of batteries. Starbucks is really crowded today and there's someone using the outlet.

Yours,

T. Paine