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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"just another digital technology and method of communication"

Yes. Just the telephone didn't replace face-to-face, faxes didn't replace the the mail, and e-mail hasn't replace any of them (though faxes are wanning). We just have more tools, and use them as we best see fit.
Mike

BL:

Like many business people, I used to start my day with coffee and The WSJ. I still love to savor the journal (and the coffee,) but my routine has changed dramatically in recent years. Now I start my day consulting a newreader for my collection of blog RSS feeds. I still read the journal, but not until evening. My wife read this article aloud to me last night. While Fry has several noteworthy points, he waits in line well behind countless blogs before I read his commentary.

Rich
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