Are bloggers really just pundits of another stripe?

This is the question I asked myself when I read the excellent article on the rise of anti-intellectualism (excerpted and quoted below). Certainly the medium would lend itself to punditry. Short concise notations, links to other sites, the ability to pretend -think while linking to people who provide actual thought. All could be true of blogging and of the bloggers themselves.

Could be, but I don't believe it. I've found so many examples of good independant thought in blogs, concise insightful analysis summed up in those short elegant entries that quietly entice you to sideways-surf to the source.
::example: Arts & Letters Daily::