A great Daniel Miller type link. 'THANK YOU FOR FINANCING GLOBAL TERROR' stickers. The thing isn't just about oil consumption but a change in how we see the world we are in. No longer are we willing to sit back and let the State Department handle the dipliomacy, people want to get involved and do their thing. The web allows for that. This isn't just about oil but about a new age where people don't want to watch anymore, they want to do and the net is the ideal medium for that.

The net allows people to voice their own opinions and get more involved in the governing and political process. My own venue for communicating about politics may not shape George W. Bush's opinion but may help shape and convince others. That may not seem a lot but when you have a couple million blogs out there, it adds up and becomes a force by its own.