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June 16, 2005
don't believe the hype
Gawker editor Nick Denton succinctly sums up the recent hype about blogs:
"The hype comes from unemployed or partially employed marketing professionals and people who never made it as journalists wanting to believe," he said. "They want to believe there's going to be this new revolution and their lives are going to be changed."
I'm guessing this is coming from a survivor of the dot-com era. It was the hyped up promise of the Internet that led to the unsustainable growth of the industry, eventually leading to the inevitable crash. Hopefully some rational thought about reasonable growth and development of the technology will lead to a better economy for the blogging industry. Until then, this blog remains a tool for my rants and as a journal to supplement my poor memory, AT NO CHARGE TO YOU, Dear Readers.
While stopping for a bite to eat on Tuesday I noticed some kinda "Blog Today" spot on CNN that was recently spoofed by John Stewart (can't find the link right now). It looked rather silly seeing two reporters at LIVE COMPUTERS covering what is being covered by what was lifted off someone else's blogs on some guy's blog whom I've never heard of.
Posted by jimbo at June 16, 2005 9:16 AM
Comments
Our newspaper has started a "Best of Blog" column with totally awful local bloggers yapping about things they shouldn't yap about.
Posted by: homer at June 16, 2005 10:39 AM
In ever evolving forms, this process will change the way we fundamentally communicate as human beings. And society can never have too many people getting involved and voicing their opinions. I think blogging and the web is akin to the mass-production of printing presses.
Elitism has no place in a healthy democracy.
rob@egoz.org
Posted by: rob adams at June 16, 2005 12:51 PM
Shouldn't that be "FREE OF CHARGE TO YOU" or "AT NO CHARGE TO YOU," Jimbo? As it reads now, it makes you sound like you're going to charge us. ;-)
CNN does that "Around the Blogs" thing every day on their Inside Politics show. Basically, like you said, they just show people sitting at computers, then close-ups of the screen with words highlighted THAT THE PEOPLE REPEAT ON CAMERA. It's fascinating television, really. Most of the time they don't even show the URL of the blog they're talking about, either.
Posted by: Dunner at June 16, 2005 5:17 PM
and its like...two total "Jennifers" doing the blog report on like..... Inside Politics..its sooo cool.
Posted by: GURL at June 17, 2005 1:04 AM