The Future Is Not Yet Us
My favorite quote from the December issue of WIRED magazine:
"There's nothing wrong with blogging or podcasting, but they feel to me a bit like CB radio. What I think will happen is that the best bloggers and podcasters will eventually be subsumed into the professional media. After all, every blogger I know is trying to find a way to generate revenue. Blogging and podcasting will eventually morph into something that looks a whole lot more like The New York Times, and the Times will come down a step or two and learn to give up a bit of its patrician nature." -- Robert Cringely
Don Surber makes the point that 00.07% of Internet traffic is directed toward blogs (which is what made the delusions of "gravitas" behind amateur hour at the OSM even funnier).
Behold the transitional phase. Love live its replacements.
Comments
Cringely may not be far off the mark.
Because of it's caustic, sultry and sometimes invective nature, I used to refer to the internet itself as "CB radio for the middle class", but my official position changed of course, when I started my blog and thus "moved inside the Beltway".
The New York "Slime" and other fishwraps, are going down because the only people stupid enough to buy their radical leftist dreck are college students, retirees and other welfare recipients...who continue to want more of something for nothing. Viva la revolucion!
Posted by: Ted | December 11, 2005 8:14 AM