Turns out Espen Skoland was thinking the same thing we were last week. His feed, Blogcampaigning, is a fascinating and thorough study of how blogs influence politics.

Once again, though, we’re struck by how narrow a bandwidth blogging really has with the public. It’s all early-adopters and specialists. “Real” people still need the mainstream media to become of aware of important commentary in the blogosphere.

What’s needed is some seminal event that galvanizes the general public to change habits and start looking at Bloglines for their news.

Who knows? Maybe the looming US Presidential campaign will turn ordinary Americans on to blogging.

Let’s put it this way: when Moms at my daughter’s Cheer gym start talking about blogs, the Golden Age will have arrived.