The Guardian has added to the recent spate of articles on “the blog” and what it all means for 21st century journalism, by Ben Hammersley, a blogger himself (naturally). I like the tagline for the article:
Investigating the world of weblogs: at a Silicon Valley conference, new technology left old-style reporters so far behind that they retired to the bar
I don’t know about you, but personally I’d rather go for the hotel bar martini than real-time blogging on my laptop….
This quote, related to Japan’s cellphones, from Dan Gillmor, amused me:
Some day soon, there will be a major, newsworthy event in Japan and there will be 400 photos taken of it in the first minute by cam-equipped cellphones. Those 400 photos will make their way to news organisations and to individuals and we will have 400 visual perspectives of that event from the ‘former audience’.