Could Blogs really be the future (and whatd'ya mean 'the future' anyhow).
Well, the new way of accessing information. Will they become bigger/more important than newspapers, tv, news gathered by companies?
What I like about blogs, and what this one fails to do or be, is that I can go to my list of blogs and access targetted information in a fairly accurate and limited subject area. So if I'm feeling frivilous I can get news on news Snacks in the US and UK on SnackSpot. If I want political intellectual transport stories, I go to transport blog (now that IS narrow cast). But the subtleties are are profound too. See, if I want transport stories, but don't want the hard arsed captialist approach, just some friend 'well fancy that' snippets, I can go over to 646 Industries Beyond Stupidity.
You could have described this situation to me a couple years ago, and I would have thought, gee that is STOOPID. How could anyone care about such slight differences. The newspaper is where its at, this is too complex, too intricate, too much hassle, and nobody will do it. But everyone does it , its easy to find and the wealth of info is outstanding. Not to be overlooked is that fact that professional (!?!?) news organisations do provide a talking point / subject lead / kick starter to a lot of the data that is out there in the blogs.
Now I'd never hold this blog up as anything approaching interesting. This is a self serving vomit holder - I wanna blab, I can do it here. The failings? Its not concentrating on a narrow cast area of interest (say, transport or music) and it doesn't have enough personaility to make it interesting per se (I could point to - 'no rock n roll fun', which although about music, is also interesting enough just because its funny - and its funny because its true...
Thats not to discount One Point Zero blog, which I like because its narrow cast is that it comes from a guy working in Brussels - so a curious (to me) point of view. And this is only talking about the blogs I've found that are worth reading.
No sure what I'm concluding from all this, except I think its all fantastic. Really. Fantastic. Blog. All of you. Please do. Cos I wanna read 'em.
Posted by tom at October 4, 2003 02:25 PM