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The blogosphere is not a thing

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

Kudos to my M-list buddy Kent Newsome for posting pretty much what I intended to write (if I had been around a computer at the time) after I read Stephen Baker’s recent piece at BusinessWeek’s Blogspotting. Baker’s post came in response to a comment by Steven ... Continue reading »

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  • V[[a=s/"p++Ers*t\H-gR||ate/!!#

    3 years ago

    UPDATE: Stephen Baker posted a comment at my blog, saying that he sees my point. Then I said I'm not sure what my point is. I mean, sure we've seen mediums polluted and devalued, like FM radio, TV, even the telephone (think: telemarketers). "500 channels and nothing worth watching" syndrome.

    Media do become *as a whole* degraded and devalued. They may not go away, but they become perceived as stupid, boring, unprofessional, etc. For example, no business people use CB radio to communicate. Maybe not the best example, but you know what I mean.

    I just don't know what our marching orders are. Stephen Baker predicts, in his comment on my blog, that soon the serious bloggers will not call themselves "bloggers".
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  • V[[a=s/"p++Ers*t\H-gR||ate/!!#

    3 years ago

    P.S. "blogosphere" is a thing, a totality, an entity...for discussion purposes. Like "youth culture", "hip hop lifestyle", "punk rock", "democracy", "free nations", "the elderly", "illegal aliens", "Western Civilzation", "Christendom", etc.
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  • V[[a=s/"p++Ers*t\H-gR||ate/!!#

    3 years ago

    First time here, and I'm hooked, dude. You are wildly good at blog post titles. I wanna read every post due to their titles. Damn, I don't have time, with my geek neck pain, to do this. You monster, you!

    :^)
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  • Mathew Ingram

    3 years ago

    Thanks, Vaspers :-)
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