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Saturday, January 15, 2005

livejournal.com is down... Luckily blogger.com uses google's server farm

That'll teach you to trust dotcom startups! Ha!

Fortune magazine lists blogging as one of the main technology trends of 2004/2005. No wonder, given that almost everybody I know has a blog. But what is a blog actually? Its main characteristics number two:

Permanent storage. Your posts are retained for eternity at the same address, for anyone to access.

Updatability. Anyone with a connection can talk.

Blogging is the third stage in the information revolution. Previously, information flowed in a single direction only, either from individual to individual in the form of writing, speech or email.

The creation of movable type and the Gutenberg press allowed the first revolution, one-to-many communication, in which selected individuals and groups have the capability to disseminate information to the masses rapidly and efficiently. The creation of the Internet merely increased the variety and volume of information available, as well as vastly quicken the pace of delivery. The right to communicate was still reserved to selected individuals with domains, while the masses could only pick and choose their information source, but actively transmitting was still impossible.

Now with blogging, the information revolution is complete. The element of the all-powerful individual in the form of the media has been exorcised. True, many-to-many communication is now possible, and every individual has the right and the capability to transmit or receive as much as he or she desires.

This HAS to be a good thing, right?

Suffering from OBS withdrawal now... Back to reality


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