… but I am. Yesterday I read an interview with of the more well-known authors and journalists. He basically said:
I can never see any important being written inside the blogosphere that would not end up on the news.
Maybe he is right about that part. However is that the purpose of blogs? Definitely not, it never has been. The basic purpose is for “normal” people to connect to their friend via the internet and tell whatever they feel like. Is that good or bad? You might argue that blogs are increasing the total amount of information on the web, but in the era of search engines this is not a major problem. Therefore it is all good.
More on the future of the new improved media, partly blogs then read my other blog entries on the subject.
- The future of the new improved media
- Comments on the future of citizen media
- Credibility and copyrights in the new improved media
The only point I will give him is that we have a lack of structure in the web. There is too easy to produce information. Nowadays there is so much information that some help in this ocean is needed. I wrote an entry on that the day before I met the co-founder/president Mena Trott and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development Andrew Anker at SixApart that delivers what I think the best blog platform today.
- The future of blogging (found in the January 2006 archives)
Finally what we need is for the traditional media to start to get involved. As for the author. He needs to start realise that everything is evolving. We can either use to be part of the evolution and influence where it is going. Standing on the side, remembering the good ol’ days and complaining about change will never change anything. It will however bring in a lot of negative energy, which I think this world has too much of already.
