March 30, 2006
Tech and Publishing Guys
What's in a name? A lot. The podcasting and AJAX revolutions were mainly linguistic phenomena. Suddenly there were words that crystallized ideas and patterns of behavior that had been evolving for years. We won't solve our problems by coining new buzzwords. But awareness of what our words condition us to think, and not think, has never mattered more.
Over the past few years, blogging has really taken off. A few days ago Doc Searls was pondering that he used to be in the Technorati Top 100 and now he’s not. Why? There’s all kinds of other stuff people are blogging about: “celebrities, politics, sex and other topics that float atop the polular mainstream media charts.” I’m at 3000 and something on the Technorati list, but still I get multiple tens of thousands of page views per month. Clearly, people at the top are getting a lot more.
Blogging as we knew it is done. The pioneering stage is over. The early adopter-early majority stage is here.
