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NY Times: Blogs Are a Sea Change in Global Communication

In an editorial today, The New York Times notes that blogs are more than a technical advance. They represent a sea change in global communication. Running this information in an editorial, instead of a story, is the Times' way of saying they finally got it -- blogs are a valid new medium with worldwide impact.

Blogs are threatening to those, like newspapers, whose stock in trade has always been message control. But that concern is irrelevant now because there's no going back to the bad old days when doing basic research required a trip to the library and the only source of news was the newspaper or evening news on TV.

Says the editorial:
"It's natural enough to think of the growth of the blogosphere as a merely technical phenomenon. But it's also a profoundly human phenomenon, a way of expanding and, in some sense, reifying the ephemeral daily conversation that humans engage in. Every day the blogosphere captures a little more of the strange immediacy of the life that is passing before us. Think of it as the global thought bubble of a single voluble species."

Categories: Blogging and Moblogging, Cross Media, Dead Tree Journalism, Digital Journalism, News, Trends

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It will be very interesting to watch how this drama unfolds—the traditional media versus a 21st century venue of communication. In many ways the train has already left the station and the very fact that the NY Times ran this article as an editorial proves that they have taken a somewhat ,defensive stance.

The news/media has always been manipulated, spun (yes, even Bill O’Reilly), targeted and filtered to appease to a target audience. I would even suggest that some, even most publications and TV shows are there to suit the needs of the companies paying the ads and less concern about the content and accuracy.

We have already seen a huge shift in the demographics and social/economic impact of blogs. As more and more people put content on the web and as they begin to realize the reach and power of near instantaneous communication, we will see the major news providers left with no option to adapt.

Wi-Fi and cellular technology will also fuel and accelerate this change. People will be able to push content to there portable devices and it will allow them to have a higher degree of control of what they want to view and read.

Posted by: John Kwarsick at August 7, 2005 10:13 AM

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