February 25, 2006
It's well on the way to Meme-ry, Glenn Reynolds' book title, how the focused distributed interest and labor made possible by the internet -- specifically blogs -- is outpacing the institutions, especially the established print and broadcast media. Where they're smart, they're in motion to keep up.
March 1, 2006 Update re "disruptive technologies:"
...last week ...two high-quality, equally highly acclaimed weblogs published well-written, erudite and startlingly professional pieces of investigative journalism.
(Feb. 25 cont'd.) Coverage of the pro-Denmark rally yesterday:
Linda Seebach, veteran Rocky Mountain News editorial columnist, emails this note about the demonstration's coverage in the Blogosphere compared to that of the mainstream media:
"It might be of interest to note that the first wire service story to cross our desks was from Cox News Service by way of the NYT News Service, and it moved at 3:22 p.m. our time (though it had been announced on the Cox budget nearly three hours earlier). By then it had been covered on a dozen blogs and I had had time to fashion an editorial out of Hitchens' speech."
Approximately 4 1/2 hours after the rally broke up.
Via Instapundit
Bloggers have become the scribbling reporters after the timely scoop. Particularly the timely scoop on subjects, like embarrassing support of Danish press expression under Islamic attack, that for whatever reason the mainstream media aren't champing at the bit to expose. What we don't have in privileged access or resources, begin to be made up in number, fluency, and flexibility.
I am hardly anyone. Dymphna and The Baron, for instance, are two people in the mountains, paying attention to the gates of Vienna. Glenn Reynolds is an accomplished law professor at the University of Tennessee, developing a behemoth of a world-wide medium, style, and audience; the Daily Markos, someone who monitors and funds Another Part of the Forest.
Together, we are Something Else.
More or less keeping up.
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