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Everything is a blog post

Blogging has been derided as a relief valve for the talent-less. Bias trumps objectivity, opinion beats facts. True, many blogs lead the visitor to the proverbial question, whatever was the author smoking?

But.

I’ve come to the realization that having used blogs almost exclusively for news and information, I am now considering any written word as a blog post. Something subjective, inherently flawed, yet good enough for me to make up my own mind.

This is why push no longer works. If everything is a blog post, the one that’s written without any blood and meat in it, the one that purports to convey “objective” information but is in fact a veiled attempt at manipulation, is immediately recognized as such.

It’s not that blogs have overtaken the media. They haven’t. But they’ve changed the way we receive and process information. And there is no going back.

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April 24, 2008 | Filed Under Information and media 

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