Daily Standard has a piece by Hugh Hewitt touting the influence of the Big Four blogs. He names Andrew Sullivan, Instapundit, The Volokh Conspiracy and Mickey Kaus. He’s right about their influence. And, surprising as it may seem, I’m not even going to complain about his deafening — and fairly lame — silence about NRO and the Corner — the traffic of both/either being equal to or greater than those excellent sites (woops I guess I just did). But, as a recovering blog skeptic (Yes, that’s right I’m changing my views on the whole thing), I should still note that pretty much all previous predictions of the web’s role at political conventions and planned (as opposed to sudden and unexpected) major news events have turned out wrong.