It seems to me that blogging is regulating the bullshit of the PR and (especially) media industries and is therefore performing a valuable service. So well done to the likes of the world’s leading, pr blogger and Wadd’s tech PR blog.
The question I have is whether there will be a backlash? Post-post-modernism, if you like. Whilst the media and PR industries (rightly) pay heed to bloggers, taking them out for drinks and treating them with the respect that they deserve, will there come a time when bloggers are ignored. Could it be that there are too many blogs, making it impossible to find ‘the truth’ (is it ever possible to find the truth)? Will people start to distrust all bloggers based on the wrongly held views of the minority? Or will blogging move into a parallel with news, as it seems to have done in recent times, and simply provide the instant ‘citizen’ news that people crave.
I have more questions than answers, but what I know for sure is that there are more bad blogs than good ones and it is those that give the blogging ‘industry’ a bad name.
Nice one Rafi. Thanks for the mention.
Posted by: Stephen Waddington | September 03, 2007 at 02:51 PM