Thursday, December 05, 2002

Lowering the threshold of mulltiplied genius. George Siemens on The Art of Blogging: But what bloggers do is completely new - and cannot be replicated on any other medium. It's somewhere in between writing a column and talk radio. It's genuinely new. And it harnesses the web's real genius - its ability to empower anyone to do what only a few in the past could genuinely pull off. In that sense, blogging is the first journalistic model that actually harnesses rather than merely exploits the true democratic nature of the web. It's a new medium finally finding a unique voice. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 8:57:00 AM