Shorter Peter Daou: how the blogosphere can make an impact as a tool of the establishment. This is possible, because the grown up world is just like high school:

Bloggers can exert disproportionate pressure on the media and on politicians. Reporters, pundits, and politicians read blogs, and, more importantly, they care what bloggers say about them because they know other reporters, pundits, and politicians are reading the same blogs.

I have a big post coming on this in a little while.