“Many early adopter bloggers are engaging in critical debates about the challenges ahead. Namely, whether blogging is really that wild frontier of digital democracy they had imagined or if it is merely an echo chamber of privileged and increasingly commercial interests.” – Linked Out on Mindjack.com
Melanie McBride (aka chandrasutra) gets her blog on at Mindjack.com with her latest article, Linked Out: blogging, equality and the future.
McBride takes a revealing look at the current state of blogging, challenges the assumptions of Clay Shirky’s Power Laws and peels back the mask of blogging as digital democracy. Established blogging voices like Danah Boyd and Solomon “S-Train” Mason share their views on what blogging is, what it will be and who really gets to build its future.
In an age of corporate media and widening class divides, is blogging really giving a voice to the disenfranchised, or is this just a false mantra, helping our rss feeds flow more smoothly each night?
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Bias alert: Melanie is my partner and I had the honour of helping edit the article – but don’t let that stop you from reading it!
