Roomful of mirrors

stavrosthewonderchicken verges on tears (of laughter) contemplating the irony of the "nuking the echo chamber" meme proposed for BloggerCon 2 in EmptyBottle.org: Echo and the Bunnymen, asking

Am I missing all the constellations of new voices who haven't gotten linked as a result of what they write rather than who they've met?

(The discussion keys off the question of whether the Dean campaign talked itself into a corner, functioning as a sort of echo chamber or meme machine that turned off all but the fringe true believers and early adopters.)