Blogging

Nice article on blogging here:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12270994%255E7582,00.html

Professional blogs are a great way to get away from main stream media. More and more I see people turning from TV to the Internet for information which only the former provided.

I see it has part of the technological power to the people current that is flourishing with communications.

First satellite allowed broadcasters to reach homes everywhere, so even East Germans could see what was happening in West Germany. It shrunk the world of a number of magnitude.

The Internet shrinks the world again and gives the indivudual the ability to become a broadcaster to anyone anywhere instead of just a receiver.

I noticed that during the Kosovo war, blogs kicked in but were not known as such then. People in the war zone would post daily to a web page what they saw, heard and felt.

After 911 Internet forums were full of chat on associated issues and then the Iraq war created similar. I think both created a feeling that the news organisations were not representing individual feelings and this seemed to spur blogging IMHO.