Roland posts this summary and link to a summary of discussions about blogs at the Davos economic forum, where their concern is (as usual) how to turn something into money. "This creates a classic free-rider problem. If the blogs eventually steal the mass media's audience (or at least, key parts of it) and the Internet as a whole continues to steal its revenues, there will come a time when those big, expensive news-gathering operations will become economically insupportable." Here's a clue: they are already economically unsupportable. We need to think about different ways of looking at news as opposed to through the big centralized amassers, hoarders and filters of Organized Content. Take this item: a meeting summary produced by a participant that works its way through the blogosphere. Parasitical? Sure - I wasn't at the meeting. Parasitical on the traditional media? No way - the media isn't touching this one. We need to recognize that there are alternative forms of news, where the participants make their own news, and that we no longer need media to do it for us. The same, by the way, goes for learning.
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