HW 19: Juan Cole

After reading the article by Drezner and Farrell in Blog! How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, Culture, the most important paragraph I found and easily understood was on page 86 to 87. It is the first paragraph under the title, “The Ties That Bind.” The paragraph is about Juan Cole and how he made a blog after September 11, 2001 called “Informed Comment.” He was not being heard by the people around him, because no one was interested. Being online and creating his own blog with his own thoughts helped Juan become heard throughout the United States and even throughout the world. Juan Cole knows three Middle Eastern languages fluently which allowed him to look at Muslim blogs and monitor reports throughout the Muslim Region. He kept his fellow American bloggers updated constantly. In other words, this paragraph is important because it proves that anyone who’s anyone can have a blog and express themselves on blogs. Blogs are great things to create and Juan Cole is a great example of this.