This morning we had a lively discussion on bloggin with Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette), Mena Trott (Six Apart), and Dan Gillmor (Grassroots Media). Great discussion about how blogs are a great alternative to main stream media while some in the audience felt they were mostly a irresponsible echo chamber.
I thing the truth is that good journalism is drowned out by all the noise on the Internet. Their seems to be a battle going on between the traditional media outlets and the low barrier to entry blog space.
Mena noted that their has been an explosion of blogging but while their are some big, well read blogs, the average blog has six readers, just like mine.
They talked a little about pod casting and all agreed that it is probably not going to take off. Video blogging could turn everyone into John Daily or Walter Cronkite down the road. The covergence of huge amounts of open bandwith, cheap technology and disatisfaction in traditional media is causing big problems for the big media guys.
More soon.
Mark Carpenter
General Manager and Director
Web Strategy and Operations
www.aarp.org
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