Monday, 26 February 2001
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Who's Blogging Now?: But according to one practitioner, Weblogs aren't about making money; they're about revolutionizing communication. Dave Winer, a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of tiny Userland Software, has been maintaining his Scripting.com Weblog since 1997. For this baby boomer, Weblogs aren't just a publishing medium; they're a crusade. "I'm interested in creating a new form of journalism," he says. "I don't trust the media sources, the TV networks and magazines."
Will Weblogs change journalism? They'll do more than that, if you believe Winer. "We have a lot of problems to solve on this planet," he says. "We need to gain consciousness as a society, and one of the best ways to do that is to start talking and also to listen."
This is one of the reasons I'm a follower.
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