Alex Dobuzinskis, staff writer for the Daily News reports that a dense fog of information and ironic rants, the blogosphere has settled over Santa Clarita.

This month, Time magazine chose “You” as its person of the year, in a nod to the power of the Internet to give everyday people the ability to express themselves to a broad audience.

True to the nationwide trend, Internet blogs written from and about the Santa Clarita Valley also flourished this year. It’s a new kind of journalism in which bias is fine, name-calling acceptable and grammar a nonissue.

“I think what they really do is they foster debate,” said Bob Haueter, an aide to county Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich who next month moves on to being deputy chief for Republican U.S. Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon’s Santa Clarita office.

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