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Blogs doing just fine thank you

I'm trying to decide what to make of this article. Is it the misguided "power law" discussion all over again?

AP Technology, via Yahoo!:

Despite the potential of turning every Internet user into a publisher, relatively few have created Web journals called blogs and even fewer do so with regularly, a new study finds.

Some bloggers indeed update their journals often, in some cases several times a day. But it's clearly a minority who are taking advantage of the blog and its potential to steer the online discourse with personal musings about news events and daily life.

This article takes as its premise the mass-media notion that something must be highly-rated, must have a large audience, in order to be worthy. That's the old model. Centralized is the past, distributed is the future.

Blogs don't need to be widely read, or extremely numerous, to be valuable and powerful. It is human nature that people are not going to be equally vocal. Some will be more vocal than others. And in the long run that will make the world a better place.

Posted by jackhodgson at March 1, 2004 11:25 AM