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A Blogger Manifesto
Why online weblogs are one future for journalism.
February 24, 2002, The Sunday Times of London.
"Peer-to-peer journalism, I realized, had a huge advantage over old-style journalism. It could marshall the knowledge and resources of thousands, rather than the certitudes of the few. ... This was getting to be a performance as much as a job. ... the very personal nature of blogs had far more resonance than more impersonal corporate media products. ... using their favorite bloggers as guides to what was interesting or what they might otherwise miss. Bloggers became Internet sherpas - experienced guides to all the information and wackiness out there."
" ... the golden question about so much online publishing remained: how would this ever make money? ... The genius of the blogging model, after all, is the lack of overhead. ... But if the goal of opinion journalism is not ultimately money but influence and readers ... "
" ... It's no accident that a good plurality of American bloggers, for example, are libertarian or right of center. With a couple of exceptions, the established newspaper market in America is dominated by left-liberal editors and reporters. ... by-pass this coterie and write directly to an audience." ... [more]
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