This article in the NY times focuses on the communities that blogs actually can create.  The advent of the blogisphere has allowed for the creation of new communties and social networks.  This Carnival in Jersey shows that the blogisphere is bring people together who would normally never meet, talk, or know that others like them existed.  Applebome's shows that in its early stages, the blogisphere is doing something that no other media or forums have been able to do.  Make mass social networks and communities with personal relationships that surpass those created in more traditional venues.