Blogging and EDSA I

At Asian Energy Advisors this morning I talk about the "authority" of weblogs.

But how so much more vividly does Ellen Tordesillas relate this concept of peer-to-peer communication this morning in Malaya as she quotes from one of her interviews with Fidel Ramos regarding EDSA I

“In the case of Balbas, he got so many orders to fire, fire, fire.

The Rangers, they only got so far because many of their young officers started to defect to our side. Why?

Because their fathers, who were on our side were calling them up to tell the real story. That changed their minds. If not their fathers, classmates of their fathers who are on our side. And classmates started calling up classmates. If not classmates to classmates, mothers were calling up their sons who were young officers.

It's not the technology; it's the peer-to-peer communication that it enables that is so important.