Since everyone else has chimed in on Kevin Maney’s piece in USA Today, aka that newpaper with the great circulation that just happens to be left in front of every hotel room in the US, I figure it’s my turn.
So… let’s go to the videotape, or let’s take some quotes out of context, shall we?
So, yeah, blogs are cool. Anything that gives people a voice benefits society and makes us all better and smarter – and, as bloggers have proved, makes established information outlets more accountable.
Wait, “anything that gives people a voice” is reduced to “cool?”
“Hey man, freedom of expression is so… gnarly”
More likely, a few years from now, after the blog bubble has normalized, we’ll look back and say that this technology made a difference and that our total fascination with it seems quaint.
This technology made a difference, er this technology gave voice to tens of millions of people – gave them the ability to speak to a global audience and take power back from the corporate-owned, government protected mainstream media organizations, but we’ll just look back at this (no doubt from the comfort of a trite little wrap-up in USA Today) and wonder why we were so excited.
Yawn.
Kevin, what’s your point?
I could go on but the kids are waking up.
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