Whatever for?? His "thesis" is already disproven, by "l'affair Rather" started right here on Free Republic. While he may be correct that the output/opinion of any single blogger is "amateurish" (but beware of those hidden experts out there)--when enough of those tidbits are collected and refined, the final output cannot be matched, even in depth, by that of a single expert.
Spot on. Think of it as swimming against an ocean current.
Free Republic is not a "Web 2.0" site. While the user inteface has been improved and refined over time, it is still essentially the original interface from about 10 years ago. This site was doing what it does long before the idiots in marketing departments dreamed up the term "Web 2.0". The user interface will never be confused with a desktop app. It is not flashy. It is functional and very much a remnant of the 1990's.