This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen.

Do you agree with the above quotation? Before you decide, consider this case. In 2003, as the United States prepared to go to war in Iraq for the second time in little more than a decade, billions of people around the world awaited news of the first strikes. As aircraft streaked through the skies and troops hurtled across miles of desert, the attack inspired countless responses and personal reflections. Was the war morally justified? Would the Iraqis respond with chemical weapons? What was going on in Baghdad? In previous conflicts, most people would wait for traditional news media to sift through questions such as these, crafting their responses to second-hand accounts from events shrouded in the "fog of war." In the Internet Age, however, we did not depend on formal journalists to provide our only account of the war. The short attention spans of broadcast news programs and limited space of newspapers, even those promising to report "all the news fit to print," began to compete with self-styled journalists who used blogs to offer alternative views of the war.