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Re: Medium or Revolutionary community?
Journalism implies that there is an attempt to get at or uncover the truth. Agreed. Blogging, for many, serves no such noble purpose. For many, perhaps; but not for all. There are countless print and broadcast journals that also have little interest in truth, and little nobility of purpose. That doesn't mean there's no noble journalism in print or on the air. There's plenty everywhere, if you look for it. In reading blogs I have found it to be an individual's attempt to search for "their" truth, and a venue where that search can be shared with those who might engage in that search by discussing similar or opposing views. Is that's all you've found, keep looking. For one example, read Jay Rosen's Blogging is about making and changing minds, which was titled after a line I hardly remember writing, and which is packed with insight that's neither his nor mine but ours. Also take a look at what John Seely Brown said about "distributed intelligence" in 1999, and see if a lot of what he says isn't what we're doing with blogging today. The Blogs vs. (fill in the blank) story poses a false distinction, almost every time. What we need here is AND logic, not OR. Or so it seems to me on a muggy afternoon on Long Island. Tomorrow in California, who knows? :-)
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