There are definitely parallels here with Ham Radio etc... but the advantage here is that these "Ham Radios" (blogs) are already in many homes and counting... and the cognitive overhead in blogging gives it a memetic advantage... also folks overlook the simplification tools like MySpace... peer-pressure gateway drugs of cyberculture... CB can be expensive and technical... blogging is easy as email... which is expensive and technical... but increasingly standard...

access and simplicity



conventional media assimilation i think is possible... but it's a mutual assimilation... the landscape will be different... folks arent just gonna up n leave the internet en mass... and conventional media will continue to get comfortable online... they'll meet on a peer level.... decentralized & democratized... that's what we're about...


(straying now)

on Ham Radio.... consider a world... where... the infrastructure is shot... war... natural disasters... economic depression... whatever... wouldn't the internet be a great tool in "the aftermath"?

if electricity... and broadband networks... are compromised... reconstruction efforts are that much harder...

but... (and i know folks sorta do this now... with linux n whatnot... ) there can be long range networking via ham radio and modems... the power... eh.. i dunno.. solar?? crank??

think about it... anybody got a good cabin in the woods full of canned food stuffs? um...


On 11/19/05, LeanBackVids.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ah, the themed vs. personal debate again.  This is the most
entertaining one so far.

On a somewhat related note, the December issue of Wired asks - "What's
the most overhyped tech trend right now?"...

Robert X. Cringely (Creator and host of NerdTV) answers...

"There's nothing wrong with blogging or podcasting, but they feel to
me a bit like CB radio.  What I think will happen is that the best
bloggers and podcasters will eventually be subsumed into the
professional media.  After all, every blogger I know is trying to find
a way to generate revenue.  Blogging and podcasting will eventually
morph into something that looks a whole lot more like The New York
Times, and the Times will come down a step or two and learn to give up
a bit of its patrician nature."

Bold statement to say every blogger he knows is trying to find a way
to generate revenue, but I think he is correct...  Hence all the
sensitivity and hostility.

-Matt
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