As the Blogosphere Turns

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We are bloggers, hear us roar

(Image from the National Park Service website)

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So on the heels of my Hillbilly of the Week award a few weeks ago (by a pay-to-show gallery that I angered) comes a mass denunciation of bloggers as prairie dogs by the New Museum director, Richard Flood who, apparently, just learned about the blogosphere a few weeks ago. Flood even called Jerry Saltz "Mussolini," though Saltz is on FB and doesn't even have a blog, and does not share the same family tree as the reviled fascist.. .

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Sometimes the blogosphere can be like a soap opera. So lather up and enjoy:.

. Hyperallergic, which broke the story and then followed up

. Edward Winkleman blog, which weighed in

. Jerry Saltz's review of Skin Fruit at the NuMu, with a personal note to Flood at the end