Perhaps best described as a collection of interviews, lists and history, Dispatches is a quick read clocking in at just over 230 pages.

Starting with newspapers in ancient China and Rome then on to Greek bloggers of a sort, moving through pamphlets, British diarists and early newspapers, the author traces how the recording of events led first to the modern newspaper and finally into the age of blogs. Through-out this story, there is a theme of early innovators gradually being moved aside as larger players dominate new inventions- a fact that shouldn’t been forgotten by today’s bloggers dreaming of overthrowing the old More >