Blogger: Unabomber?
The whole world is a blog and all the people merely bloggers.
What/why is a blog?
I read a lot of blogs now. I used to think that they were silly, now it's how I filter the news. The first couple that I ran into seemed like the Unabomber's Manifesto; a rambling, semi-disjoint discourse on whatever.
If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later...Ted Kaczynski
But the system hasn't broken down....Blogs are a good example of how the system is growing in a healthy way, by adding original human content to cold, hard data.
I wonder where blogs are going, say 5 years from now? It seems unlikely that they will look the same way.
I suspect that we'll see video podcasting turning into the new blog with thousands of roaming reporters, interpreting and even making the news the way that they see fit. Conventional American network news is now so bad, so poorly made and pandering to the worst possible element of public taste, that their depowering would be a welcome relief.
Posted on June 07, 2006
