The Guardian: Up Yours, New York Times
It’s rumoured that Adam Nagourney of the NYT is to shortly do a ‘hit-piece’ on blogging.
Whilst we’re all entitled to our opinion, in the case of Nagourney, consider the source. He’s an increasingly irrelevant old-media journo, marooned behind a paywall as the public discourse carries on out of earshot of his lonely prison. Poor guy, he can only wail pathetically.
In praise of … the blogosphere
Leader
Saturday March 11, 2006The Guardian
The number of bloggers – people who write online journals – topped 30m this week, according to technorati.com, the search engine that monitors activity of this kind. This may give an exaggerated idea of the size of the global blogosphere because a lot of people have more than one website and others are inactive. But it does suggest that a milestone may have been passed and that blogging is graduating from being a minority sport to a mainstream activity.
Three factors are likely to ensure a continued surge in popularity. First, it is becoming ever easier to establish a blog, especially for those with broadband internet access. It takes barely two minutes to set one up if you decide on a unique password in advance. Second, the number of things you can do with them is growing fast because of the easy way photos, video clips and audio files can now be uploaded at the click of a mouse. It is possible to send a photo straight from a mobile phone to a blog with a single button press, adding text if necessary. Third, and most important, they are becoming politically and socially important as like-minded people around the world share thoughts and pictures and call decision-makers to task.
The more people join in the more powerful, and empowering, the network will become. Anyone with broadband can publish their own music, films, voice or words as well as being a passive participant. Suddenly the global village has its own continuous conversation.
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