Emerging Alternatives: Blogworld

Emerging Alternatives: Blogworld

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But there still exists a publishing format that manages to embody all these lost qualities, and more -- the Weblog. The average blog, needless to say, pales in comparison to a 1957 issue of the Voice, or a 1964 Los Angeles Free Press, or a 2003 Lexington, Kentucky, ACE Weekly, for that matter. But that's missing the point. Blogging technology has, for the first time in history, given the average Jane the ability to write, edit, design, and publish her own editorial product -- to be read and responded to by millions of people, potentially -- for around $0 to $200 a year. It has begun to deliver on some of the wild promises about the Internet that were heard in the 1990s. Never before have so many passionate outsiders -- hundreds of thousands, at minimum -- stormed the ramparts of professional journalism.

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Recommended reading, from Columbia Journalism Review.. first-rate overview of blogging's impact on journalism and potentials for future impacts....