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Somebody who is slightly better known than me shares his opinion on the matter of my last post (And blogs in general!)

Enough! The Briton who is challenging the web’s ‘endless cacophony’  
By David Smith
Technology Correspondent for The Observer

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Maybe it’s my background in economics in school and university but I believe in balance. I believe that ultimately no matter what market you talk about it will always find its equilibrium*.

So my question/statement is: What does the future hold for blogging?

As I start this kind of project, should I record my daily happenings for some anecdotal review later in life (Which is commonplace at the moment). 

Or should I strive to creative something that is worthwhile to read and actually re-act to. Should I try and extend the boundaries of blogging? Is that just another smug wanky phrase from an advertiser/marketer/communicator like me.

But I would never comment on a post unless I was genuinely interested in the subject matter – so will people even be interested in this post? Is that the point of a blogg to be read, to be read and re-acted to or simply to be there – a record of somebody’s life to be discovered by some descendant in the future (A bit like when you found your grandparents letters and photographs)

The power of blogg’s and new media were never more effectively portrayed than last week during and after the brutal Virginia Tech shootings. Some people heralded it as the death of old traditional press and the birth of citizen journalists – (what twat came up with that word). But the subsequent harassing of bloggers by journalists and the backlash which followed started me thinking.

I don’t think ‘old’ media is going to be completely replaced. Let’s face it, redneck us students (who probably voted for Bush) are never going to be able to compete with highly skilled and experienced journalists, they may take the ‘Scoop’ but that’s it. Once the story is out and is flashed around every news channel in the world, I don’t think the majority of people will be able to actually follow up with worthwhile analysis of the situation.

I think like all things in life, it will settle down and many noteworthy bloggs will survive and even prosper becoming great sources of information, while the vast bulk will end up on the scrape heap – like all those website’s/businesses that went bust during the dot com burst, and a bit like what is happening with all these digital channels that are starting to drown with a lack of income (hence the phone scams)

So the outlook a place for bloggs there will be, harder to find useful information, maybe. Balance between old and new, certainly

* In the free market society that we live in, obviously not in societies where monopoly’s are allowed to exist through legislation etc.

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The first of many – mainly a test to see how the hell this malarkey works

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