DANCING AND BURNING BEDS March 27, 2007
Posted by wmmbb in Blogging in general.trackback
Kim at Larvatus Prodeo runs posts of an article in The Sunday Times proclaiming that abandoned blogs are evidence of the demise of blogging. The evidence in the article is based on the decline in the daily rate of new entries to blogging, and a decline in the number of blogs with a variable estimate worldwide of 30 to 70 million. I doubt on the basis of the evidence whether CB radio ever approached these figures, being surplanted by the mobile phone phenonmena, or has had the demonstrated social and political impact of blogging.
Of course, framing social and technological phenomena in terms of celebrity behavior is enough to call into question the vitality of journalism, a redundant observation. Some journalists and bloggers, as we have daily evidence, often run out of valuable and useful things to say.
Blogging, and the variety of bloggers, call for serious. careful analysis and thought, interestingly enough this appears to be something that journalists are not capable of doing. This in turn raises the question why?
It strikes me as important to observe that so few journalists and politicians have taken to blogging, when prima facie it would appear to be inviting to them. I suggest a reason might be that blogging challenges the status quo. They want to keep on dancing, even as the sounds of the revolution can be heard in the distance out on the streets.
You Tube is a phenomena, which may have affected music sales. It is not just the music, people can supply the images as in this example featuring Midnight Oil’s Beds are Burning:
The MSM has lost its monopoly over commentary and imagery, a development of some significance?
Postscript:
I am wondering how long this you tube connection will hold out – no long I suspect judging by the number of plays.
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