Interesting session on the future of blogs… Mr Oh is clearly a visionary.
Although making money with a blog seems pretty limited –unless you’re a blog service provider or the CEO of a collective news-type blog or a lawyer– what’s really new (yeah, trying to make money with the Web altogether is so passé) is, that for once the medium allows the message.
Indeed, due to this new technology — with which anyone with an Internet connection can quickly publish entries in a diary format– a new form of reporting is rising.
I guess we could call it truth reporting. Among mainstream info, reporters blog their day and give us the real news on Iraq, for instance. In Europe that’s ok… but in the US where the news is a commercial product, it’s likely to become a problem.
The next thing will probably be broadcast blogs, where Joe Schmoe will be filming his entire day from the minute he wakes up… super interesting.
However, we can imagine what that means for journalism… It means live news on air non stop, not edited… just like the Tsunami disaster… “normal people” provided the general public with more images than media organizations…
“Coming up next..” NO! I don’t want it next… let me tune to Shalala’s blog to see the images of the earthquake live…
Brave new blog.
I like blogs. Power to… to…? To where it belongs. period.
In French they say: “Du chaos naît l’ordre” (at least I do – you should see my office space or “Chaos gives birth to order”.
And I’m a firm believer in this, especially when it comes to the Internet.