October 19, 2005
The Amorality of Web 2.0
...at its best, the mainstream media is able to do things that are different from - and, yes, more important than - what bloggers can do. Those despised "people in a back room" can fund in-depth reporting and research. They can underwrite projects that can take months or years to reach fruition - or that may fail altogether. They can hire and pay talented people who would not be able to survive as sole proprietors on the Internet. They can employ editors and proofreaders and other unsung protectors of quality work. They can place, with equal weight, opposing ideologies on the same page.
article by Nicholas C. Carr
thanks Joerg
~Let's hear it for the experts! Corporations and junta's alike rely on them but on the internet their opinions and ideas are being pushed to extinction by the proliferation of Machine mediated nonsense churned out by bloggers. (Like this here?) You mean college degrees are worth more than the paper they're printed on?
>related The Age of Exploitation
~Here's links to two poems
For Dorothy Day--The Water Strider and At the River's Edge
to further confound you.
[photo @\ not with article]
