“Even a few years ago the word “blog” inspired that peculiar mix of derision and dismissal that seems to haunt new media innovations long after they’re proven. A blogger was a lonely, pajama-clad person in a dark room, typing out banal musings he mistook for interesting ones, to be read by a handful of friends or strangers if they were read at all. That blogs have now become a fixture of media and culture might, you’d think, give critics pause before indulging in another round of new media ridicule. But it ain’t so.”
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David Sarno on Twitter, Los Angeles Times (via somethingchanged) (via fluffynotes)
When I was doing my master’s degree in 2003/04 I wrote a paper about how blogging was the surest manifestation of the public sphere…which was damned with faint praise by my blog-sceptic professors. I suppose it would be undignified to ask for a re-mark at this point. But that said, despite my early blogthusiasm, I never would have imagined at that point how much my own career would be driven by blogging.
