'In the Blogosphere, The rich get richer and the poor remain poor'

In the Drezner article he explains that the best way to become popular or to get more hits on ones blog is to get a link on someone else's more popular blog. This system basically weeds out the more 'mundane' blogs as he says and makes it difficult for a blogger to reach mass popularity without assistance. I completely agree with his assessment. I also don't think its a bad thing. There has to be some way of weeding out bad blogs so that a person can find the ones that interest them. Without a system like that a person would be left in the flood of blogs about sally's new boyfriend who's already in the 7th grade. I don't look at the system as unfair, instead it is simply realistic. Also, it is possible to reach popularity regardless of how unknown a person is. Though the internet may not be perfect in getting people's voices heard it is vastly better than any other system that we have.