Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
Oliver Willis is back from BloggerCon with the following cogent observation
Blogs are great. They're wonderful, and they will Change Things. But we need to step back outside of the blog-to-blog echo chamber and look at how important this movement really is.
What seems to have happened is that the fundraising success of the Howard Dean campaign has become the blog equivalent of the Netscape IPO. That public offering opened the floodgates to thousands of unprofitable companies and created the stock market bubble that was great for some, but probably set the web industry back a few years after people realized it was not The Answer to all their problems. That cycle appears to be happening with blogs now. During the BloggerCon conference it would be easy to go home thinking that any problem of note in the world could be remedied by a simple addition of "blog" to it.
I'm not ready to drink the Kool-Aid just yet.
Posted by P6 at October 6, 2003 12:21 AM | Trackback URL: http://www.prometheus6.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1856