What's Next: Wall St Journal Echoes, But Doesn't Link to Bloggers

In his Wall St. Journal column today, Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite!, Jason Fry repeats many points about blogging that we and many other bloggers have made over the past few years. He does not credit even one other blogger, but manages to make several references to his own baseball blog. How unbloggy of him.

Fry echoes what Steve Hall at adrants and I and a host of other bloggers have so often said about blogs:

"Reports of blogging's demise are bosh, but if we're lucky, something else really is going away: the by-turns overheated and uninformed obsession with blogging. Which would be just fine, because it would let blogging become what it was always destined to be: just another digital technology and method of communication, one with plenty to offer but no particular claim to revolution."

Related What's Next Posts:
Blogs Replacing Websites
Blogs Are Not Dead or Dying, July 04
When, Oh When, Will Someone Do a Blog Search Engine Right?
Various posts about blog bashing

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Posted by: Mike Driehorst at February 27, 2006 1:21 PM

Posted by: Rich Ottum at February 28, 2006 10:53 AM

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