I Blog, Therefore, I Am

California blogger Catherine Seipp's charming article on NRO is a must-read modern tale. Titled "She Was a Teenaged Blogger," Seipp writes approvingly of her 14 year-old daughter's weblog. Mom agrees that the Internet's anyone-can-be-a-publisher-or-the-press is radically anti-authoritarian:

Blogging is essentially an unregulated, free-agent activity, and that can drive people who prefer rules and regulations and decision-by-committee crazy. From its earliest days, I noticed a tone of disapproval towards bloggers that reminded me of school, what with all the carping from magazines like The Nation and The American Prospect about the blogging world's sorry lack of supervision.

Best yet, Seipp's moves beyond cliche to suggest that the Internet allows students to bypass monolithic, thoughtless PC public school teaching:

I think [my daughter's] regular stops in the blogosphere . . . [are] an antidote to [teacher group-think indoctrination]. . .. Now that so many teens have blogs, concerns about doctrinaire teachers may be passe. Our sons and our daughters are beyond their control.

I wish Seipp had finished with the accurate Bob Dylan lyric ("command" not "control"). Other than that, it's a perfect piece.