Conversations About The Internet #2: Scott Rosenberg on Blogging and Journalism
The Rumpus just published my interview with Scott Rosenberg, where we talk mostly about blogging and its relationship with journalism. Excerpt:
Rosenberg has written a history of [blogging] called Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters. In the course of it he observes that, although blogs have only been around for ten to fifteen years, they have already become “the dominant media form online.” In fact, blogs have become such an ordinary and seemingly unremarkable part of our daily lives, it can be difficult to remember the single most important fact about them: they are among the most revolutionary and disruptive technologies that have so far emerged from the Internet and the World Wide Web. In principle, they have made an extraordinary power available to everybody: the power to widely publish one’s thoughts at little to no cost. And that ability, extended by the social media that grew out of blogging, has been steadily reshaping our world ever since.
posted: 09 October 8
under: Open Folio