Comments on: Mark Glaser interviews Samir Husni about magazines, the web http://www.RexBlog.com/2007/05/02/16858?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mark-glaser-interviews-samir-husni-about-magazine-the-web Rex Hammock's Blog Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BoSacks http://www.RexBlog.com/2007/05/02/16858/comment-page-1#comment-20020 BoSacks Fri, 04 May 2007 11:39:52 +0000 http://www.rexblog.com/2007/05/02/16858/#comment-20020 Rex, there seems to be two concepts that people can’t hold in their head at the same time. They are the constant change in history in regards to content delivery and a viable business plan. They don’t necessarily develop together. Look where we have been and then project where we are going. We have gone from the storytellers of the oral tradition, to cave paintings, to out of brain, memory storage devices like batons and parchment scribed by hand. We have gone from, scribes, to the printing press to new forms of electronic communication. Each new development in the history of communication has always further democratized the delivery of information. Nothing has really changed, except the method of delivery. And the constant change has always been constant. So What? Blogs might be the most effective democratized delivery of information yet devised. So? What care I, if it is not called journalism? Call it whatever you like! It is democracy at it’s finest. Each citizen has a voice and an international platform to use it, sell it, and distribute it. Sure my buddy Samir makes some relevant points. But it he doesn’t get to the bottom line. There is an incontrovertible shift in information distribution. The denial of it as a totally viable new platform is ridiculous. It is young, vibrant and growing. .. well, you know me I could go on for hours…. Catch the Samir and BoSacks public debate sometime.. it is a fun event. Rex, there seems to be two concepts that people can’t hold in their head at the same time. They are the constant change in history in regards to content delivery and a viable business plan. They don’t necessarily develop together.

Look where we have been and then project where we are going. We have gone from the storytellers of the oral tradition, to cave paintings, to out of brain, memory storage devices like batons and parchment scribed by hand.

We have gone from, scribes, to the printing press to new forms of electronic communication. Each new development in the history of communication has always further democratized the delivery of information. Nothing has really changed, except the method of delivery. And the constant change has always been constant. So What?

Blogs might be the most effective democratized delivery of information yet devised. So? What care I, if it is not called journalism? Call it whatever you like! It is democracy at it’s finest. Each citizen has a voice and an international platform to use it, sell it, and distribute it.

Sure my buddy Samir makes some relevant points. But it he doesn’t get to the bottom line. There is an incontrovertible shift in information distribution. The denial of it as a totally viable new platform is ridiculous. It is young, vibrant and growing. .. well, you know me I could go on for hours…. Catch the Samir and BoSacks public debate sometime.. it is a fun event.

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