BLOG CONSCIOUSNESS
Much is being written these days about the importance of blogging. Henry Copeland, (who wrote the 1992 Details story about Prague) weighs in with an essay praising bloggers' "timeliness, willingness to credit others, passion, blogrolling, human interest, chronology, and devotion."

There has been a fair amount of writing about blogs being a threat to old media, in the way that the Internet was/is supposed to be a threat to newspapers. I've never understood why people feel the need to declare one medium the winner.

Newspapers are great for their depth, breadth and reliability. Wire services are fast and accurate. TV has the best video first. Magazines are good at depth. Online news has (or could have) speed and breadth while bloggers, thus far, are good, unfiltered commentators. We should be happy we have so many distinct choices. That's democracy, baby.
- posted by Amy @ 2/27/2002 10:33:00 AM